Nicolas Blondeau Books

The book serves as a comprehensive Latin-French erotic dictionary, highlighting its significance throughout human history. To preserve this important work, it has been modernized through retyping, restructuring, and reformatting, ensuring clarity and readability. This effort guarantees that the knowledge contained within remains accessible to current and future generations, moving beyond original scanned editions.

Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and notes of any edition.