L’ÉROTISME DU ROMAN LIBERTIN ENTRE CHAMPAGNE ET CHOCOLAT
EROTICISM IN THE LIBERTINE NOVEL BETWEEN CHAMPAGNE AND CHOCOLATE

Summary/Abstract: Among libertine topics, the seduction scene, often followed by erotic act, takes the lion’s share but it is preceded the most frequently by a sumptuous meal. If the reading of libertine novels shows an evident gastronomic richness, the importance concerning certain beverages appears almost in the margin of gastronomic descriptions, sprinkled in libertine works. So we will consider social and erotic value implicating champagne and chocolate consummation. Analysis concerning certain beverages is relevant, on the one hand, in the light of food habits at Old Regime and, on the other hand, due to narrative precise dynamics inscribing in libertine tradition.

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