Les Aventures du roi Pausole (novel)

'King Pausole dispensed justice under a cherry tree'. Illustration after Carlègle, 1907

Les Aventures du roi Pausole ('The Adventures of King Pausole') is a French novel with erotic themes by Pierre Louÿs, first published in serial form in 1900. The work has been called "a graceful and spicy bit of drollery".

Sources

• Lang, Bluma Renée (1947). "Louÿs, Pierre". In Smith, Horatio (ed.). Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. United States of America: Columbia University Press. p. 495.
• Louÿs, Pierre (1901). Les aventures du roi Pausole. Paris: Eugène Fasquelle.
• Louÿs, Pierre (1933). The Adventures of King Pausole. Translated by Lumley, Charles Hope. New York, NY: privately printed for William Godwin, Inc.