Pierre Louÿs was born Pierre Louis on December 10, 1870 in Ghent, Belgium, but moved to France where he would spend the rest of his life. He studied at the École Alsacienne in Paris, and there he developed a close friendship with a future Nobel Prize winner and champion of homosexual rights, André Gide. In the 1890s, he became a friend of the noted English dramatist and homosexual, Oscar Wilde. Although heterosexual, Louÿs enjoyed entree into homosexual circles. Louÿs started writing his first erotic texts at the age of 18, at which point he developed an interest in the Parnassian and Symbolist schools of writing.
In 1896, Louÿs published his first novel, Aphrodite--Ancient Manners (Aphrodite (mœurs antiques)), a depiction of courtesan life in Alexandria. It is considered a mixture of both literary excess and refinement, and, numbering at 350,000 copies, was the best selling work by any living French author in his day.
Louÿs went on to publish Les Aventures du roi Pausole (The Adventures of King Pausolus) in 1901, Pervigilium Mortis in 1916, both of them libertine compositions, and Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l'usage des maisons d'éducation (written in 1917, published posthumously and anonymously in 1927),[5][6] a parody whose obscenity is almost unparalleled even in the long history of French clandestine publishing.[citation needed]
Even while on his deathbed, Pierre Louÿs continued to write delicately obscene verses.
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Fiction, Correspondence, French Erotic literature, Fiction, erotica, general, French Authors, Translations into English, French Erotic poetry, Lesbians, Poetry, Authors, French, Control (Psychology), Diaries, Erotic literature, French, Manipulative behavior, Masochism, Relationship addiction, Description and travel, Erotic Photography, Erotic poetry, Erotic stories, French, Erotica, French Erotic stories, French Historical fiction, French poetry, Greek MythologyPeople
Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), Georges Louis (1847-1917), Henri de Régnier (1864-1936), Jean Cassou (1897-), Curnonsky (1873-1956), Georges Louis, Gérard d' Houville (1875-1963), Jean de Tinan (1874-1898), Maurice Quillot, Natalie Clifford Barney, Pierre Loüys (1870-1925), Pierre de Montera, Renée Vivien (1877-1909), Victor Hugo (1802-1885)ID Numbers
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- Pierre Louys
- Pierre Louis
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