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68/3483 Homosexuality Anecdotes Pour servir à l'Histoire Secrete des Ebugors 68/3483 [Homosexuality]. Anecdotes Pour servir à l'Histoire Secrete des Ebugors. "Medoso, L'an de l Ere des Ebugors, MMMCCCXXXIII" (= Amst., J.P. du Valis, 1733), 106p., contemp. pink wr. - Verso of wrappers sl. browned. Fine copy. = Very rare story à clef concerning Louis XIV's fight against sodomy. The final four pages contain a key to the various anagrams used in the book, i.a. Ebugors (for Bougres), Friscaniens (for Franciscains), Medoso (for Sodome), Nerui (for Urine), Canelos (for Con sale), Heneracs (for Chancres), Fouruchuda (for Duchauffour, referring to Etienne-Benjamin Deschauffours, who received the death sentence for his sodomite activities) and Recumer (for Mercury). Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.245; l'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale 113. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.