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Jean Charles Gervaise de Latouche

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Name
  
Jean-Charles de

Role
  
Writer

Books
  
Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux, The Adventures of Father Silas

Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche (26 November 1715, in Amiens - 28 November 1782), was a French writer. He was a lawyer at the Parlement de Paris of the Ancien Regime.

The authorship of the licentious books Memoires de Mademoiselle de Bonneval (1738), Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux (1741), and possibly also Lyndamine, ou, L'optimisme des pays chauds (1778) has been attributed to him.

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Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche Wikipedia