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Pierre Louÿs

Pierre Louÿs, pseudonym of Pierre Louis (born Dec. 10, 1870, Ghent, Belgium—died June 4, 1925, Paris, France), French novelist and poet whose merit and limitation were to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection.

Louÿs frequented Parnassian and Symbolist circles and was a friend of the composer Claude Debussy. He founded short-lived literary reviews, notably La Conque (1891). His Chansons de Bilitis (1894), prose poems about Sapphic love, purporting to be translations from the Greek, deceived even experts. Aphrodite (1896), a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, made him famous. His best novel is La Femme et le pantin (1898; Woman and Puppet), which is set in Spain. Louÿs’s popularity, which rested more on his eroticism than on purely aesthetic grounds, has faded.
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French writer and poet (1870–1925)

Born 1870
Died 1925

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French writer and poet (1870–1925)

Born 1870
Died 1925

Subjects

Correspondence, Fiction, erotica, general, French Erotic literature, Fiction, French Authors, Translations into English, French Erotic poetry, Lesbians, Poetry, Authors, French, Control (Psychology), Diaries, Erotic literature, Erotic literature, French, Erotica, Manipulative behavior, Masochism, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Relationship addiction, BDSM, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Description and travel, Erotic Photography, Erotic poetry, Erotic stories, French

Places

Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt, France, Greece, Alexandria, Andalusia (Spain), Frankrig, Sevilla

People

Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), Georges Louis (1847-1917), Henri de Régnier (1864-1936), Jean Cassou (1897-), Curnonsky (1873-1956), Georges Louis, Gérard d' Houville (1875-1963), Jean de Tinan (1874-1898), Jinfa Li (1900-1976), Maurice Quillot, Natalie Clifford Barney, Pierre Loüys (1870-1925), Pierre de Montera, Renée Vivien (1877-1909), Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1870-1925, 1900, 332 B.C.-30 B.C., 332-30 B.C., Ancient Times

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Alternative names

  • Pierre Louy s
  • Louys Pierre
  • Pierre LOUYS
  • Pierre Louys
  • Pierre Louÿs
  • Pierre Louýs
  • LOUYS PIERRE
  • pierre louys
  • LOUYS,PIERRE
  • PIERRE LOUYS
  • Pierre Loüys
  • Pierre Pierre Louÿs
  • Pierre Pierre Louys
  • Pierre Louis
  • Pierre Louÿs
  • Pierre Loüys
  • P. Louys
  • Peirre LOUYS

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