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Cover illustration by Étienne le Rallic for Ces Dames de Lesbos Renée Dunan  

This little-known novel retraced the history of sapphism through the ages. After an introduction focusing on Lesbos in antiquity, she backtracked to prehistory, swerved through Babylon, paused with the Amazon women, trekked through Corinth, returned to Lesbos, landed in Rome, paid a visit to the Ottoman sultan and the court of Louis XV, and finally arrived at her destination, the modern-day Lesbos of Hollywood, London, and Paris.