111/ A voyage to Cythera (3): amongst publishers and their pretend imprints
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The third submit on this sequence, impressed by Colonna’s “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili“ and WATTEAU’s “Embarquement pour Cythère” (1), explores how Cythère was well-liked amongst publishers of French books throughout three centuries 1700-1999.
A fast search in Europeana yields 37 title pictures, introduced chronologically in a Google-Album (Fig.1). Attention-grabbing on this pattern is the frequent use of the pretend imprint ‘A Cythère’ or comparable phrasings, additional explored in Desk 1. A time distribution of 65 publications (Fig.2) is in contrast with the graphs generated with the phrase Cythere or Cythère in WEB-tools Google Books Ngram Viewer and Gallicagram (Fig,3 & Fig.4).
The search in Europeanais restricted to publications out there within the public area. Therefore, the number of 37 publications is much from exhaustive. Amongst them some are the comedies of the listing mentioned within the submit 110/ A voyage to Cythera (2) like ‘Ésope à Cythère , comédie en un acte et en vers libres, par M. Dancourt’ (1). This assortment of title pages reveals that 15 publications function a pretend imprint ‘A Cythère, …’ or different humorous addresses like ‘A Gnide, aux dépens de Vénus’. This common phenomenon of faux imprints of publishers, who tried to keep away from censorship as a result of the extremely erotic content material of the publication of for different causes, has been studied extensively (2). Knowledge associated to publications about Cythère had been retrieved and are summarized in Desk 1: 53 publications from 1741 to 1941 and 6 undated.
The time distribution of those publications, merged with these of the Google Album, is introduced in Fig.2.
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Determine 1 Google Album generated from a search in Europeana
Desk 1. Publications about Cythère with pretend imprints |
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12 months |
title |
creator/ translator |
imprint |
place |
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1741 |
Recueil…l’affaire de madam. Petit… |
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A Cythère |
Paris |
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1743 |
Etrennes libertines |
Legrand et autres |
A Cythère, chez la reine d’Amathonte |
Paris |
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1744 |
L’Emblème ou le guerluchon |
|
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1745 |
Vie de madam. Carville |
|
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1746 |
Code de Cythère, … |
(Moët) |
Erotopolis, 7746 |
Paris |
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1747 |
Le Noviciat du marquis de *** |
|
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1748 |
Histoire du siège de Cythère |
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1749 |
Le Congrès de Cythère, et lettres de Leona à Erotique, son fils |
Algarotti/ Dupont Du Tertre |
A Cythère, impr.d’Ovide |
Paris |
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1749 |
Le Meursius, ou l’académie des dames |
N. Chorier/ Nicolas |
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1749 |
Nouvelle traduction du Meursius…Aloysia |
N. Chorier |
A Cythère, impr. de la Volupté |
Paris |
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1749 |
Le Tribunal de l’amour, ou les causes célèbres de Cythère |
M. de la B.(Bastide) |
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1750 |
L’aimable petit-maitre, ou Memoires militaires et galans de Monsieur le comte de G*. P***, a Madame Tt***, rue saint Denis, a Paris |
François-Joseph Darut de Grandpré |
Imprimé aux Champs de Mars, et se vend dans l’isle de Cythere |
Paris |
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1750 |
Le Moyen d’être heureux, ou le temple de Cythère |
(Rivière) |
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A’dam (Paris) |
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1751,53 |
L’Artwork de jouir |
(J.O. de la Mettrie) |
A Cythère |
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1753 |
La Trentaine de Cythère |
(La Bastide) |
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Londres (Paris) |
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1753, 55 |
Etrennes libertines pour l’année |
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A Cythere, Chez la Reine d’Amathonte, à l’Enseigne des Plaisirs |
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1755 |
Etrennes gaillardes |
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Cythère |
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1755 |
La Nuit…les matinées de Cythère |
(Crébillon fils) |
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Londres (Paris) |
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1756 |
Lettres ou conseils… |
(David) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1756 |
Les Oeuvres Galantes Et Amoureuses D’Ovide |
J. Barrin |
A Cythère, aux Dépens du Loisir |
Paris |
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1757 |
Bagatelles galantes |
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Cythère |
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1757 |
Les Tributs de l’amour et de l’amitié |
Guérin de Frémicourt |
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1760 |
L’Ecole des filles |
Hélot |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1760 |
Nouvelles amoureuses |
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A l’isle de Cythère |
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1765 |
La Médicine de Cythère… |
(Grandval fils) |
Clignancourt |
Paris |
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1769 |
L’Artwork des coiffeurs des dames… |
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A la Toilette de Cythère |
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1771 |
Les Baisers de Jean Second |
(J. Everts/ Montonnet-Clairfons |
A Cythère |
Paris |
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1771 |
Le Tableau de la volupté… |
D. B. (Du Buisson) |
Cythère, au temple du plaisir |
Paris |
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1772 |
Les Amours de l’Ange-Lure |
B. (Bièvre) |
Cythère, l’an des Amours |
Paris |
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1774 |
La Nouvelle académie des dames… |
D.C.D.L. |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1775 |
L’Artwork d’aimer |
(Bernard) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1775 |
Le Parnasse libertin.. |
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A Cythère, chez le Dru, à l’enseigne de Priape |
Paris |
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1775 |
Les Leçons de la volupté… |
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A Cythère |
Paris |
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1776 |
Journée de l’amour, ou heures de Cythère |
(Turpin, Guillard, Favart, de Voisenon) |
Gnide |
Paris |
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1776 |
Lit-de-justice…ou le code de Cythère |
(Rétif de la Bretonne) |
Erotopolis… |
La Haye |
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1776 |
Almanach der Grazien :auf das Jahr … von Cupido |
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Cythere, bey Ganymedes |
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1777 |
Code de l’amour, ou choice de Cythère |
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Cythère |
Paris |
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1783,85 |
L’Amour, ou le congrès de Cythère et lettre de Léonce à érotique son fils |
(Algarotti/ Maciet) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1783 |
Théatre d’amour |
(Robineau, dit Beaunoir) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1786 |
Le Rideau levé |
(Mirabeau) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1787 |
Manuel des boudoirs… |
(Mercier) |
Cythère, 1240 |
Paris |
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1789 |
Le sacrifice de l’amour, ou La messe de Cythère suivi du sermon prêché à Gnide… |
Saincric, J B de. Compilateur |
A Sybaris, Chez l’impr ordinaire du plaisir |
Paris |
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1790 |
Bord…nationwide… |
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Cythère, et dans tous les bordel…de Paris |
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1790 |
Julien, ou.. |
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Cythère |
Paris |
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1790 |
Histoires lubriques, derobées aux archives de Cythère |
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A Gnide; aux dépens de Vénus |
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1793 |
La Bougie |
(Mercier) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1793 |
Le Portier des chartreux… |
(Gervaise de la Touche) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1797 |
Thérèse philosophe… |
(d’Argens) |
Cythère |
Paris |
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1798, 1800 |
Arétin d’Aug.Carrache ou Recueil de postures érotiques, |
(Croze-Magnan) |
A la Nouvelle-Cythère |
Paris |
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1800 |
Joujou des Messieus… |
|
Cythère |
Paris |
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1836 |
L’amour et l’amitié ou le nautonnier de Cythère, almanach chantant.. |
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Au Temple de la Gaîté, chez les Amis du plaisir |
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1922 |
L’élégie à Jean Marzelle |
Gilbert Lély |
à Cythère en le Temple de l’Amitié |
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1941 |
L’amour paillard |
L’Érotin |
À Cythère |
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|
n d |
Eloge du Cocuage… |
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Cythère, au dépens de la Confrérie |
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n d |
Histoires lubriques…aux archives de Cythère |
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Gnide |
Paris |
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n d |
Le Petit polisson… |
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Cythère |
Paris |
|
n d |
La Tartuffe libertin… |
|
Cythère |
Paris |
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n d |
Variétés |
(d’Hartig) |
Imprimé à Cythère |
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n.d. |
Le Jardin d’Amour |
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A Cythère, chez Cupidon et Vénus, associés |
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Determine 2 |
This graph could be in comparison with the graphs generated by the WEB-tools Google Books Ngram Viewer (3) and Gallicagram (4).
Each instruments show a chronological graph of occurrences of the phrase Cythere or Cythère of their chosen corpus of digitized books. Fig.3 exhibits the outcomes of the Ngram Viewer at smoothing ranges of 10 years and 50 years. The accent ‘grave’ in Cythère is constantly extra used from 1790 onwards.
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Determine 3 Occurences of the phrases Cythere Cythère within the corpus Google Books
Fig.4 exhibits an analogous graph of Gallicagram for the books (livres) within the Gallica corpus, however the instrument permits additionally for a mixed search.
Determine 4 Occurences of phrases Cythere Cythère within the corpus books of Gallica These occurences are not the variety of books revealed in any given 12 months or interval and due to this fact these graphs are exhibiting a transparent distinction with the time distribution of books in Fig.2. Whereas the variety of books about Cythère revealed after 1800 is just 10% of the entire, the phrase stays well-liked within the corpus of all books all through the following centuries. |
NOTES
(1)Submit of 10th June 2022 “109/ A voyage to Cythera (1): amongst poets, painters and musicians” Submit of 30thAugust 2022 “110/ A voyage to Cythera (2): amid 30 French comedies of the 18th century”
(2) Emil Weller: ‘Dictionnaire des ouvrages frangais portant de fausses indications des lienx d’impression et des imprimeurs…’ Guillaume Engelmann, Leipzig 1864.
Gustave Brunet: ‘Imprimeurs imaginaires et libraires supposés : étude bibliographique…’ Tross, Paris 1866
(3)GoogleBooks Ngram Viewer shows a graph how the chosen phrase happens in a particular corpus of books, right here the French corpus, collected as much as 2012. A really helpful complementary supply of knowledge is 2. Case study: Ngram Viewerin An introduction to textual content mining, College of London – Faculty of Superior Examine 2022
(4)Gallicagram has been developed by Benjamin Azoulay and Benoît de Courson of ENS (Ecole normale supérieure) Paris–Saclay and exploits the database Gallica of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).
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