LOUYS Pierre (1870-1925)

LOUYS Pierre (1870-1925)
Pybrac and other erotic texts. Autograph manuscript.
Under a drawing book, about 70 pages in pencil.
Set of about a hundred quatrains from "Pybrac and other erotic texts" written in pencil by Pierre Louÿs.
... "I don't like it when at the ball a virgin sighs "Sir will I suck you or will you fuck me?"
For I would not make love for an empire
But by the mouth or by the back, I run away" "Pybrac" will be published clandestinely in 1927 after the death of Pierre
Louÿs.
The enigmatic title, "Pybrac" is inspired by the Toulouse magistrate and poet
Guy du Faur de Pibrac (1529-1584), author of a collection of very moralistic quatrains that Pierre Louÿs hijacks into an erotic fantasy.
All the quatrains start with the same beginning "I do not like..."
PROVENANCE Gérard Nordmann, manuscript bearing his bookplate.