[Military] French soldier songs. Four manuscript songbooks
(1) Andre Delorme, entry 1910. Handwritten book with songs and prose, including a section called 'Réglements d'un Bordel, dated 23 septembre 1912. The text describres, in salacious and explicit terms, the operations of a brothel, with passages such as 'a maquerelle sera colle avec le maquerau et sa gouvernante de la maison elle serra prese cent kilos et avoir de beaux tetons' [sic] and 'Il est expresement défendu aux jeunes novices de se faire enculer ou de sailler une plume avant six mois de service, après ce delai toutes les orgies leur sont permise' [sic]. Incl. many spicy drawings of women in between the text. With three more albums: (2) Lucien Denis, entry 1910. (3) Jarry Leon, entry 1898 (4) Anon., 1914. All partly song, partly prose, with illustrations of mostly women or soldiers and women.
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