Dimensions
131 x 198 x 24mm
Marie-Antoinette kept a bound copy of this notorious study of sexual intrigue in her private library; and it was condemned by a criminal court forty years after its publication in 1782 and publicly incinerated. The satanic hero and heroine of this greatest of eighteenth-century novels - a pair of depraved aristocrats - plot and achieve detachment of mathematicians solving an algebraic formula.
