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The Ex-Classics Web Site Book of the Month -- November 2025 The Adventures of the Chevalier de Faublas First published in 1786-1790, this satire on the French aristocracy treats of the amorous adventures of a very young French aristocrat at the very end of the Ancien Regime. Faublas, not yet sixteen, disguises himself as a girl for a joke, and goes to a ball. The Marquis of B*** lusts after him, and brings him home with his wife, hoping to seduce him. But it is his wife the Marchioness de B*** who takes the boy's virginity. Ready, like any healthy teenager, to sleep with anyone who shows willing, he is soon involved in a complex web of disguises and pseudonyms. This gives rise to a sequence of farcical episodes, as he tries to satisfy three different women, along with occasional one-night stands. Even marriage does not put an end to his philandering antics. Farce soon shades into melodrama, and at last into tragedy.. Previous BOMs AboutUs The Ex-Classics project was founded in 2000 to fill an unmet need.  When reading the blurb etc. to a book by Charles Dickens or Charlotte Bronte, say, we would often come across sentences like "Favourite reading included . . ."  If  it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us. So off we go to the library or bookshop, to be met first with blank stares and then with the information that the book has been out of print for decades. Our first two books were Gil Blas and Hudibras, which are prime examples of this. This web site is dedicated to rescuing these works from obscurity and making them available online, both for reading directly, and for downloading. What do you think? Any comments about this site or its contents? E-mail us (Click here) We have an occasional newsletter - please say if you want to be added to the mailing list. We never give out your details to spammers, or anyone else, for that matter. No-Copyright notice This site and its contents are public domain and free to the world. Anything in it may be copied and distributed free of charge or obligation. [There are one or two exceptions to this,which are clearly marked where they occur.] We expect this policy to be passed on - anyone who copies our texts or web pages and tries to claim copyright for themselves is stealing - not from us, but from you, and from everyone. An example of what we mean.

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