TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rachilde
TI  - Monsieur Vénus
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Sex role -- Fiction
KW  - Social classes -- Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
KW  - French fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_V%C3%A9nus Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_V%C3%A9nus; Release date is 2011-06-26; Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
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N2  - "Monsieur Vénus" by Rachilde is a novel written in 1884. French noblewoman Raoule de Vénérande seeks escape from the suffocating ennui of upper-class life through an unconventional relationship with Jacques Silvert, a poor florist. She transforms him through escalating manipulation, subverting gender roles and sexual morality in her pursuit of pleasure and identity. When jealousy and social transgression collide, the arrangement spirals toward a violent confrontation—and an unsettling conclusion that defies conventional mourning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36528
ER  -