Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche (26 November 1715, in

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- 28 November 1782), was a French writer. He was a lawyer at the

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of the

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. The authorship of the licentious books '' Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Bonneval'' (1738), '' Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux'' (1741), and possibly also '' Lyndamine, ou, L'optimisme des pays chauds'' (1778) has been attributed to him.

Works

* ''Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Bonneval écrits par M***'', 1738 a
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* ''Histoire de Dom Bougre, portier des Chartreux, écrite par lui-même'', Arles, Actes Sud, 1993 a
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* 1715 births 1782 deaths 18th-century French novelists French male novelists 18th-century French male writers {{france-novelist-stub