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Florine and Boca

Florine and Boca

Le Marchand, Francoise
Stableford, Brian

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1612278108
ISBN13: 9781612278100
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Françoise le Marchand deserves to be reckoned a significant, if slightly shadowy, figure in the revival of contes de fées in 1730s and 1740s France.

It is not obvious why either of the two novellas translated here, Florine (1713) and Boca (1735) had to be published illicitly, but it undoubtedly reflects the fact that the genre was effectively under a royal ban in the aftermath of the scandal that had caused Louis XIV to break up the coterie of female writers who pioneered it. Le Marchand could not have been unaware of the fact that the scandal involved allegations of lesbianism, and the two works presented here contain odd features, which might not be unconnected with that context. While a little eccentric in their construction, both works stand out for their imaginative imagery.

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