Pierre LOUŸS. Pybrac, poems. Cythère, Au Coq Hardi [René Bon - Lot 265

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Pierre LOUŸS. Pybrac, poems. Cythère, Au Coq Hardi [René Bon - Lot 265
Pierre LOUŸS. Pybrac, poems. Cythère, Au Coq Hardi [René Bonnel], 1927. In-16 jesus of 2 ff. n. ch., 98 pages, 2 ff. n. ch., filled cover in pink paper printed in black, tired case. First edition. Illustrated with a copperplate engraving on the title page, executed by the Japanese-born painter Tsugouharu Foujita (1886-1968), known as Léonard Foujita. Printed at 105 copies on Arches vellum. According to Sarane Alexandrian: "Pybrac was written after Pierre Louÿs' quarrel with Senator Bérenger, president of the League against street licentiousness, who had a scene from La Femme et le Pantin (an adaptation of his novel) banned from the Théâtre Antoine in December 1910, because the dancer Régina Badet showed her naked breasts. This father of modesty even wanted to sue the great actor Gémier, director of this theater. Pierre Louÿs mocked the senator Bérenger in his Pybrac, a series of blames that a puritan addresses against sexual aberrations. Here the scholar refers to the Quatrains du seigneur de Pibrac, one hundred and thirty-seven moralizing quatrains by a magistrate of Toulouse, Raoul du Faur, which were taught to schoolchildren in the old days. Each of Louÿs' quatrains begins with "I do not like to see" and describes an abomination, the whole forming a catalog of impurities." Pia 1206, Dutel 2278.
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