Dix-Neuf, Vol. 25, Issue. 1, p. 70. This volume of essays, written by scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-century ...

The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries ... Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom, written while Bastille, remains one of the most shocking tales of sexual extremism ever published ...

A letter by the French 19th-Century poet Charles Baudelaire announcing he would kill himself has sold at auction for €234,000 (£204,000; $267,000). The note, dated 30 June 1845, was addressed ...