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French Enlightenment, French erotica

"Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow:The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

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Watteau's Judgment of Paris.

His Fêtes vénitiennes[1], Frühling[2], Jupiter and Antiope[3], L'Amour désarmé[4] , Quellnymphe[5]

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"In 1707, James Read and Angell Carter of England are found guilty of publishing The Fifteen Plagues of a Maidenhead. At the same time John Marshall is found guilty for publishing Rochester's Sodom: of, the Quintessence of Debauchery and The School of Love (An English translation of L'Academie des Dames). Although all were found guilty, James Read moved their arrest be in lieu of judgement on the grounds that obscene libel was not something the court had the power to deal with. The court agreed." --[6]

See also A long time burning: the history of literary censorship in England‎by Donald Serrell Thomas and Libertine literature in England, 1660-1745 by David Fairweather Foxon, 1966

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Some famous art critics

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Eighteenth-Century British Erotica (5-Volume Set) by Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding published by Pickering & Chatto mentions The Ladies Delight, by Anonymous

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Watteau: A lady at her toilet‎ by Donald Posner, pupil of New York University Institute of Fine Arts

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RIP Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer. Author of Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda (1976), made into a film [7] by Camilo Luzuriaga in 1996.

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"The Triumph of Eros: Art and Seduction in 18th Century France."

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Erwin Blumenfeld, Mark Sandman, Catalogus Plantarum, Philip Miller

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Girish says the French critic Jean-André Fieschi has died. He is best-known to English-language readers through his brilliant essays, in Richard Roud's 2-volume Cinema: A Critical Dictionary, on Hitchcock, Buñuel, Murnau, Tati, Rivette, Vertov, and others.