Cody Sparks’s Reviews > Life, letters, and Epicurean philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos the celebrated beauty of the seventeenth century 1903 [Leather Bound] > Status Update

I’m reading this book expecting an intimate perspective from Ninon herself, but instead it’s a 19th-century moralist constantly reminding me she’s a whore—then backpedaling with, “But don’t let that distract you, she was very clever and had a heart of gold!” It’s condescending, self-contradictory, and oddly obsessed.