L'Escole des Filles

Robinet, the son of a trader, is in love with a young girl named Fanchon, but because of her naivety he is unable to approach her.

He therefore convinces Fanchon's older cousin Susanne to enlighten her through a trusting conversation and at the same time to kindle her lust.

In the course of their conversation, Susanne and Fanchon discuss a variety of topics, such as the age of marriage, the male and female sex organs, and sexual intercourse.

The two women address other topics including sex positions, flagellation, penis sizes, birth control and marriage.

[6] More recently, Donald Thomas has translated L'Escole des Filles into modern English; he describes the original as "both an uninhibited manual of sexual technique and an erotic masterpiece of the first order".

Frontispiece of a 19th-century reprint of the Dutch counterfeit edition of 1668