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Jean Galland as Ambrose the masked dancer Le Plaisir (dir. Max Ophüls, 1952) [1]     "The truth of metaphysics is the truth of masks ....

Illustration by Severo Pozzati (1957)  used to advertise Maggi pot-au-feu beef cubes   Venez à moi, vous dont l’estomac crie misère, et je ...

Cover of the 1908 edition  of Guy de Maupassant's Le Horla   I. The concept of the Outside is as important to me now ...

I. As the clinical sexologist Amy Marsh rightly points out, whilst objectum sexuality is often regarded as a relatively recent phen...

Philosophy begins with an experience of disappointment  - Simon Critchley I. La déception It's arguable, I think, that t...

I. We are, of course, far removed in time from the Paris that enchanted so many writers and artists in that period between 1871 ...

Arletty (1898-1992) Mon cœur est français, mais mon cul est international! Sleeping with the enemy or, as the French like to ca...