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A young woman has the laces of her bodice loosened by her new husband on their wedding night. Coloured lithograph by Bettannier brothers, 1851, after L.-F. Corréard.

The lord's first night : the myth of the droit de cuissage / Alain Boureau ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

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The lord's first night : the myth of the droit de cuissage / Alain Boureau ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

A young woman has the laces of her bodice loosened by her new husband on their wedding night. Coloured lithograph by Bettannier brothers, 1851, after L.-F. Corréard.