Article: A timely moment for erotica in Paris

Elaine Sciolino The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
01-18-2008
A timely moment for erotica in Paris
Byline: Elaine Sciolino The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

PARIS --

The lighting is bordello red, but the librarians insist that their X-rated exhibition is serious. "Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret," which opened at the National Library here last month, offers a peek at its secret archive of erotic art, putting on display more than 350 sexually explicit literary works, manuscripts, engravings, lithographs, photographs, film clips, even calling cards and cardboard pop-ups.

Visitors to the library can listen to a modern-day recording of an ...

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