The Hell of the National Library of France
The Hell of the National Library of France
The mythical and coveted, object of curiosities and fantasies, hell is a 'closed location in a library where one takes books whose reading is believed to be dangerous"- after the Great universal 19th-century dictionary (1870) by Pierre Larousse. From his birth in the 1830s, hell was a piece where one cadenassait printed matter deemed licentious and pornographic - that is "contrary to morality". These books, mainly of erotic nature, were kept in a separate section from the rest of the library, a reservation prohibited to the public including the restricted access was on the recommendation.
Heresies, blasphemies and obscenities, clandestine editions from libertine novels celebrate eroticism and sex despite the censorship. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum, catalog of the books depended on the initiative of Roman Catholics, identifies harmful and immoral works condemned to be banned from reading. It is to him that we owe the expression "be put on the Index" which means be excluded. It is considered today as a moral guide than a prohibition. Since many books were destroyed, others have survived and have been put aside in these reserves or Cabinet of curiosities.
Today, we offer you to enter the hell of the National Library of France with the famous work of the Marquis de Sade The one hundred twenty days of Sodom, the Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland, but Le Roman de Violette (falsely attributed to Alexandre Dumas}, L'École des Biches, Ernest Baroche and many others, to satisfy you.
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