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Confessions of a Journeyman Typesetter
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Author, printer, and libertine Rétif de la Bretonne ("the French pornographer") was among the most eccentric public figures of eighteenth-century France. Gérard de Nerval, drawn to such eccentrics, examines the life of the man whose work the 1911 Britannica deems "unfit for general perusal."
Genre: essay/biography
Length: 49,000 words
Translated from French (2012) by Juan LePuen
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Gérard de Nerval
French translator, poet, and essayist, 1808-1855.
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