Margot la Ravaudeuse

by Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron

"Margot la Ravaudeuse" by Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron is a libertine novel published in 1750. First printed in Hamburg, this work paints a realistic portrait of eighteenth-century Parisian society, exposing the vices and virtues of its inhabitants. The novel's candid depiction of social mores helped secure Fougeret de Monbron's place in literary history, becoming his most enduring work and earning numerous modern reprints across prestigious French literary collections.