A monk with a candle examining a sleeping woman, 18th century. The woman wears bodice and petticoats with her breasts and sex exposed on the bed. Copperplate engraving heliogravure by Francois Rolland Elluin after Antoine Borel from Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche’s Memoiren des Saturnin, von ihm selbst Niedergeschreiben, Privatdruck, Liepzig, 1911. Also known as Le Portier des Chartreux, it was one of several erotic novels written by Latouche, 1715-1782, a lawyer at the Paris Parliament.

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