This chapter of the legendary ladies’ man’s memoirs finds him in cities including Munich and Paris, where he witnesses an attempt on the life of his old enemy, Louis XV.
John Cleland, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, Giacomo Casanova, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Eliza Haywood, J. P. Jacobsen, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Virginia Woolf, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gustave Flaubert & Denis Diderot