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Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, born Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif ( French: [ʁetif]; 23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806), also known as Rétif, was a French novelist. The term retifism for shoe fetishism was named after him (an early novel, entitled Fanchette's Foot, follows a beautiful heroine and her pretty little foot, which ...
Perpétuellement à court d'argent – il mourut dans la misère –, il écrit aussi de nombreux textes pour réformer la marche du monde. L'œuvre maîtresse de Restif de la Bretonne est Monsieur Nicolas, une vaste autobiographie en huit volumes, échelonnés entre 1794 et 1797.
Nicolas-Edme Restif was a French novelist whose works provide lively, detailed accounts of the sordid aspects of French life and society in the 18th century. After serving his apprenticeship as a printer in Auxerre, Restif went to Paris, where he eventually set the type for some of his own.
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Nicolas-Anne-Edmé Restif de la Bretonne [born Rétif] born Sacy, near Auxerre, France: 23 October 1734. died Paris: 2 February 1806. works
Il est significatif qu'ils privilégient la nuit dans les Nuits de Paris ou le Spectateur nocturne (1788-1794), moment où l'on peut surprendre les secrets, où les rêves prennent le pas sur la réalité, où les obsessions s'expriment en graffiti sur les murs ou les parapets des ponts ( Mes inscriptions, 1780-1787).
Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne (nëkôlä´ ĕd´mə rĕstēf´ də lä brətôn´), 1734–1806, French novelist. A printer by trade, he wrote and published over 250 novels, mostly based on incidents in his own rather libertine life.
The works of French novelist Nicolas-Edme Restif, known as Restif de la Bretonne, provide lively, detailed accounts of the sordid aspects of French life and society in the 18th century.
