Undesirable by Jennifer Anne Boittin

Author:Jennifer Anne Boittin [Boittin, Jennifer Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS013000 HISTORY / Europe / France, SOC028000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

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They “Allegedly Had Intimate Relations”: Gossip, Desire, and Companionship

The Monsieur in question had, it seems, the habit of using jam during his intimate frolics. (Our newspaper being an information newspaper and not a pornographic newspaper, we would not dare go into detail.) But he also had the habit of not paying the lady, who was happy to trust him until the day she learned that her demanding client was to leave for France via a banana boat. Furious, she preceded him on board and then patiently awaited him. As soon as the chair transporting Monsieur was, with the customary well-known smoothness, slammed down on the deck of the ship, he had the disagreeable surprise of seeing the woman suddenly appear to claim her dues, accompanying her just complaints with magisterial slaps to the face. Pursued, insulted, slapped, and the laughingstock of the ship’s personnel, he was forced to comply and pay. . . . But he refrained from recounting his little story to Monsieur the Prosecutor, as he is wont to do when he has an altercation. What a shame, for we would have, thus, in a public forum, learned precisely how the jam was consumed.1

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