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A Thousand and One Secrets of Parisian Nights

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Late one evening, bored, five wild society girls decided to have tea in the company of... Satan himself. The Devil failed to respond to their ritual summons, and so the most desperate of those gathered, Jeanne d'Armaillach, offered herself to the devil. Immediately, a servant announced the arrival of the Marquis of Satan. An incredibly handsome man, he drank a cup of tea in the company of the terrified girls and departed, promising Jeanne that he would appear to her every midnight. It's not hard to guess that the Marquis kept his promise, and even exceeded it, falling in love with the capricious beauty...

The Parisian demi-monde lives and breathes passion, and in such an atmosphere only vices flourish—is this why the devil appeared in Paris in the late 19th century? True, the customs of the beautiful Parisian women he carefully studied over the course of a thousand and one nights astonished even him...

Written by the French writer Arsène Gousset, whom Émile Zola called "one of the great oaks of the romantic forest," this novel enjoyed immense popularity in Russia. Written in 1875, it went on sale in Moscow in 1877.
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