<p><em>The School of Women</em>, by Nicolas Chorier (AD 1612-1692), is an erotic novel written and published in the mid to late 17^th century France. It has a convoluted history, much of it made up: Luisa Sigea, a female Spanish poet, had purportedly written the original in Spanish (<em>Sotadic Satire on the Mysteries of Love and Venus</em>); later Johannes Meursius, a Dutch classicist, purportedly translated it into Latin (<em>Elegantiæ Latini Sermonis...</em>). From there, it made its way into French and then English, multiple times.</p><p><br></p><p>This translation in English, from the French, contains the first 5 of 7 dialogs between two young women protagonists, Tullie and her younger companion, Octavie. The plot is simple: Tullie, the more experienced of the two women, has been asked by Octavieʼs mother to instruct her daughter on how best to satisfy her future husband <em>in bed</em>. Unsurprisingly, the dialogs themselves take place in bed. Itʼs a coming of age story of sorts for Octavie, and a paean to tribadism as well as to the hetero<em>sexual</em> love between a man and his wife.</p><p><br></p><p>Very graphic in nature, - if written today, it might have had a subtitle of "How to please your man in bed, while practicing on a woman." Highly erotic - it is definitely not a book for children, and may not be a book for some adults even.</p>