The unimaginable pornographic correspondence of Gustave Courbet revealed to the general public | EUROtoday

On Apr 6, 2025

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Lhe very circumstances of the invention of this correspondence are a scene of a novel. On November 15, 2023, 4 staff of the Besançon library activated, within the attic, to make storage. They are getting ready to depart the premises when, below the attic, not very seen, a pile of paperwork positioned with out methods on a shelf attracts the eye of Agnès Barthelet, assistant to the conservation of the library.

We method. First shock: on the battery, a handwritten observe, not signed, specifies that these letters had been entrusted to the institution firstly of the XX^e century, that it’s advisable to transmit them from one curator to a different however to not establish them formally, even much less to publish them. They usually are not in any stock. Obviously, we ended up forgetting them …

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