Pierre Louÿs

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Pierre Louÿs, pseudonym of Pierre Louis (born Dec. 10, 1870, Ghent, Belgium—died June 4, 1925, Paris, France), French novelist and poet whose merit and limitation were to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection. Louÿs frequented Parnassian and Symbolist circles and was a friend of the composer Claude Debussy. He founded short-lived literary reviews, notably La Conque (1891). His Chansons de Bilitis (1894), prose poems about Sapphic love, purporting to be translations from the Greek, deceived even experts. Aphrodite (1896), a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, made him famous. His best novel is La Femme et le pantin (1898; Woman and Puppet), which is set in Spain. Louÿs’s popularity, which rested more on his eroticism than on purely aesthetic grounds, has faded. [Encyclopædia Britannica]

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Sanguines
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Deux filles de leur père
Representative edition published 2019
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Aphrodite (ancient manners)
Representative edition published 2013
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Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l'usage des maisons d'éducation
Representative edition published 2010
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Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis
Representative edition published 2007
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Le crépuscule des nymphes
Representative edition published 2005
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Diálogos de cortesanas & Manual de urbanidad para jovencitas
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La femme et le pantin
Representative edition published 2004
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Manuel de Gomorrhe suivi de L'Île aux dames
Representative edition published 2004
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Dossier secret Pierre Louÿs-Marie de Régnier
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Mille lettres inédites à Georges Louis
Representative edition published 2002
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The collected tales of Pierre Louÿs
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Psyche
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Mon journal
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Scènes de péripatéticiennes
Representative edition published 2000
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Trois filles de leur mère
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Les aventures du roi Pausole
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Aphrodite, tome 3
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Toinon
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Poésies érotiques
Representative edition published 1999
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Histoire du roi Gonzalve et des douze princesses
Representative edition published 1996
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Two erotic tales
Representative edition published 1995
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Douze Douzains de Dialogues ou Petites Scènes amoureuses
Representative edition published 1995
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L' homme de pourpre
Representative edition published 1994
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