Emilie de Varmont, ou le Divorce Nécessaire, et les Amours du Curé de Sévin: par l'Auteur de Faublas
Contributions
- Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Coudray
- author
- Guillaume-Luc Bailly
- publisher
Related resources
- has translation
- Emily de Varmont, or Divorce dictated by Necessity, to which are added, the Memoirs of Father Sévin translation
Notes
Some editions included illustrated plates. It was well reviewed in the Moniteur and the Logographe (18 Jan 1792). It was reissued in 1792, 1794 and 1815.
Set in provincial France, Louvet's racy, epistolary novel used a complex web of romantic entanglements to demonstrate the need for the legislation pending before the National Assembly enabling divorce and the marriage of priests. It was a political pamphlet woven into a love story, marking a transition between his popular, romantic potboiler, 'Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas' (1787) and the blatant political propaganda he was soon to write in 'La Sentinelle'.