Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux
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Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux is a French novel from 1741. Allegedly the anonymous author was Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche.[1] Histoire de Dom Bougre is one of the most celebrated French erotic novels of the 18th century, and one of the most frequently reprinted.[2]
The novel was published under a variety of titles in French: Histoire de Dom B... (1741), Histoire de Gouberdom (1772), Mémoires de Saturnin (1787), Le Portier des chartreux (1784) and Histoire de Saturnin (1908). Translations into English have appeared under a similar variety of titles, such as The History of Don [sic] B. (1743), The Life and Adventures of Silas Shovewell (1801) and The History of Father Saturnin alias Don B*** alias Gouberdom – Porter of the Charterhouse at Paris (ca. 1827).[3]
The name Bougre refers to the French term boulgre meaning bugger.
References[]
- ^ "Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux". medbib.com/. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ "Patrick Kearney, A Checklist of Editions of Histoire de Dom B***". Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ Kearney, A Checklist of Editions of Histoire de Dom B***
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