Sex in the Cities. Volume 3. Paris

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Hans-Jürgen Döpp. Sex in the Cities. Volume 3. Paris

Introduction

Paris: The City of Love?

The Parisienne – a Chimera?

History: Middle Ages, Renaissance

Paris: Europe’s First Metropolis

François Villon

The Court in the 16th Century

The Golden Age of Eroticism

The Duke of Orléans’ “fêtes d’Adam”

Duke of Richelieu’s “Petite Maison”

Deer Park

The Palais Royal

Madame Gourdan’s Brothel

18th Century Literature and Art

Romanticism

Triumph of the “Bourse” and Romantic Interior

Charles Fourier and the “New Order of Love”

Streets and Boulevards

The Belle Époque and Montmartre

Montmartre

20th Century – Modern Paris

The Myth of Montparnasse

Jules Pascin

Marcel Vertès

André Breton and Surrealism

Hans Bellmer

On the etching Souterrain Baroque by Bellmer

André Masson

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Paris: The Imaginary Museum of Eroticism?

Bibliography

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Guide secret pour étrangers et viveurs

(Secret Guide for Foreigners and Roués), 1910. Book cover.

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On this stage, witty coquetry could be seen. Flirting and wit intertwine and turn love into a social art. This may well have irritated many visitors to Paris – especially German ones.

Gutzkow acknowledges what nowadays we would call the “emancipatory element” of “French love”. The element of “economising” or “budgeting” in love gives the latter a quality of deliberation and reflection. That said, Gutzkow takes refuge once again in a quasi-Wagnerian tone, full of German soul, dominated by profound emotional devotion.

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