Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne

Standard Name: Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas Edmé

Used Form: Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne

Used Form: Rétif de la Bretonne

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Intertextuality and Influence	Christina Stead	Again CS listed her cast of characters at the front of the book, where she also placed an epigraph from Rétif de la Bretonne . A preliminary note says that the jokes and stories exchanged...

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1767

Rétif de la Bretonne published Le Pornographe ou les idées d'un honnête homme sur un projet de règlement pour les prostituées, the first of two works on the containment of female sexuality.

Norberg, Kathryn. “From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease 1730-1802”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 34-50.

Howard, Heather. “Offstage Performances: Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century French Theatrical Reform”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 31 Mar. 2005.

1770

Rétif de la Bretonne published at AmsterdamLa Mimographe, second of his two works examining women's role in the theatre and in prostitution (following La Pornographe, 1767).

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