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Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche
Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche (26 November 1715, in Amiens - 28 November 1782), was a French writer. He was a lawyer at the Parlement de Paris of the Ancien Régime.
The authorship of the licentious books "Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Bonneval" (1738), "Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux" (1741), and possibly also "Lyndamine, ou, L'optimisme des pays chauds" (1778) has been attributed to him.
Misfortunes of Virtue", by Marquis de Sade (1912)
- "The Lascivious Monk" ("Lyndamine, ou, L'optimisme des pays chauds"), attributed to Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche (1908) – 1st English translation
- "Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies" ("Vies de dames galantes"), by Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1901–1902) – 1st English translation
- "The Massacre of the Innocents" ("Massacre des innocents"), by Maurice