"Vies des dames galantes" (1655, 1722) / Les Dames Galantes (1834), par Pierre Brantôme, dit le Seigneur de Brantôme [Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (Seigneur de, circa.1540 -- 15 July 1614]. A CRÔNICA ESCANDALOSA DO AMOR - NARRATIVAS LIGEIRAS DE COMO CERTAS DAMAS FIDALGAS SE DELEITAM NA PRÁTICA DO AMOR E A CONSEQUENTE MÁ SORTE DE SEUS INFORTUNADOS MARIDOS -- PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE dit SEIGNEUR DE BRANTÔME.
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[Citations -- Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (école française du xvie siècle)].
« Toute belle femme s'estant une fois essayée au jeu d'amour ne le désapprend jamais ». --Les vies des dames galantes.
« Si tous les cocus et leurs femmes qui les font se tenoyent tous par la main et qu'il s'en pust faire un cerne, je croy qu'il seroit assez bastant pour entourer et circuire la moitié de la terre ». --Les vies des dames galantes.
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https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Brantôme
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brantôme_(écrivain)
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[About the Author of Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies]: Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, dit Pierre de Brantôme, Abbé de Brantôme et d'Andre, Vicomte de Bourdeille, soldier, historian and biographer, was born in Perigord, in ~1527, in the reign of François I. He early took up the career of arms, serving under his friend François de Guise, Duke of Lorraine, as his Captain, the same who was killed before Orleans by Poltrot de Mere. Afterwards he came up to Court, and was Gentleman of the Bedchamber under Charles IX., who showed him much favour. On the King's death he retired to his estates, where he composed his Works -- "A fall from his horse compelled him to retire into private life about 1589, and he spent his last years in writing his Memoirs of the illustrious men and women whom he had known. His life was the subject of the historical drama film Dames galantes (1990) that focused on his relations with women. The lead role was played by Richard Bohringer'.'
[Works]: "Vies des hommes illustres et des grands capitaines français de son temps"; "Vies des grands capitaines étrangers"; "Vies des dames Illustres"; "Vies des dames galantes de son temps"; "Anecdotes touchant les duels" [aka] Les anecdotes de la Cour de France, sous les Rois Henry III et IV. Touchant les duels; and "Rodomontades et jurements des Espagnols". All that really concerns us here is the Vies des dames galantes. It is especially from this point of view that we propose to speak of Pierre de Bourdeille, known almost exclusively to posterity under the name of Brantôme. As to his Essays in the manner of Plutarch, these do not come into our purview at all. Besides which, I am of opinion, it is in this book that Brantome appears under his most characteristic aspect, and that it is here we may best learn to know and appreciate his genius.