Diaboliques - Six Tales of Decadence - Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Iain White most merely conceptual

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Diaboliques - Six Tales of Decadence - Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Iain White most merely conceptualDiaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence by Jules Barbey dAurevilly ISBN 9780816696901 303 page paperback from University of Minnesota Press *** With its six trenchant tales of perverse love, Diaboliques proved so scandalous on its original appearance in 1874 that it was declared a danger to public morality and seized on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. More shocking in our day is how little known this masterpiece of French decadent fiction is,