Libertines, Lotharios and Complete B******s. True stories of history's most badly behaved men and women. Join roguish host Simon Talbot as he uncovers the disreputable lives and fascinating times of historical hellraisers like Giacomo Casanova, Catherine the Great and Errol Flynn, along with a bawdy cast of colourful characters that you may not have heard of. Become a Lovable Rogue because everything is more fun in period costume.
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episode 16: W**k Like an Egyptian - Gustave Flaubert 1851
Join the self-pleasuring French literary giant as he explores the delights and diseases of the mysterious East.
It's a grubby tale of 19th-century sex tourism, habitual masturbation, writer's block and VD.
- Why couldn't Flaubert leave himself alone?
- What happened when he visited a bathhouse?
- Were the contents of his letters home explicit?
- Did he write Madame Bovary?
All this and more will be answered in episode 16 of Rogues Gallery Uncovered - the podcast of bad behaviour in period costume.
Read Flaubert's own account of his Egyptian journey HERE
Read Madame Bovary HERE
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