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Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne

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[[Image:Retif.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne]]
'''Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne''', born '''Nicolas-Edme Rétif''' or '''Nicolas-Edme Restif''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁetif|lang}}; 23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806), also known as '''Rétif''', was a French [[novelist]]. The term ''[[retifism]]'' for [[shoe fetishism]] was named after him (an early novel, entitled ''Fanchette's Foot'', concerns a woman and her pretty little foot, which, with her pretty face, gets her and her shoe/s into much trouble). He was also reputed to have invented the term "pornographer" for the same-named book, ''The Pornographer''.

==Biography==
Born the son of a farmer at [[Sacy, Yonne|Sacy]] (in the present [[Yonne]]), Restif was educated by the [[Jansenism|Jansenists]] at [[Bicêtre]], and at the expulsion of the Jansenists was received by one of his brothers, who was a ''[[curé]]''. Owing to a scandal in which he was involved, he was apprenticed to a printer at [[Auxerre]], and, having served his time, went to [[Paris]]. Here he worked as a journeyman printer, and in 1760 he married Anne or Agnès Lebègue, a relation of his former master at Auxerre. Soon he converted to Protestantism.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIHuDwAAQBAJ&dq=Nicolas+Restif+de+la+Bretonne+protestant&pg=PT15 | title=Contes de Restif de la Bretonne: Le Pied de Fanchette, ou, le Soulier couleur de rose | last1=Bretonne | first1=Restif de La | date=19 May 2021 }}</ref>

It was not until five or six years after his marriage that Restif became an author, and from that time to his death he produced a bewildering multitude of books, amounting to something like two hundred volumes, many of them printed with his own hands, on many different subjects. Restif suffered at one time or another the extremes of poverty. He drew on the episodes of his own life for his books, which, "in spite of their faded sentiment, contain truthful pictures of French society on the eve of the [[French Revolution|Revolution]]".<ref>1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica''</ref> He has been described as both a social realist and a sexual fantasist in his writings.

The original editions of these, and indeed of all his books, have long been bibliographical curiosities owing to their rarity, the beautiful and curious illustrations which many of them contain, and the quaint typographic system in which most are composed.

The end of the [[assignat]]s during the Revolution forced him to make his living by writing, profiting by the new freedom of the press. In 1795 he received a gratuity of 2000 francs from the [[Thermidor Convention]].
In spite of his declarations in favor of the new power, his aristocratic acquaintances and his reputation made him disreputable. Just before his death, [[Napoleon]] gave him a job with the ministry of police; he died at Paris before beginning the job.

==Assessment==
According to [[1911 Britannica]],
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Restif de la Bretonne undoubtedly holds a remarkable place in French literature. He was inordinately vain, of extremely relaxed morals, and perhaps not entirely sane. His books were written with haste, and their licence of subject and language renders them quite unfit for general perusal.}}

He and the [[Marquis de Sade]] maintained a mutual contempt, while he was appreciated by [[Benjamin Constant]] and [[Friedrich von Schiller]] and dined with [[Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière]], whom he met in 1782.
[[Jean François de La Harpe]] nicknamed him "the [[Voltaire]] of the chambermaids".
His work was republicized by the [[Surrealist]]s during the early 20th century.

He is noted also for his advocacy of [[communism]], indeed the term first made its modern appearance (1785) in his book review of [[Joseph-Alexandre-Victor Hupay de Fuveau]] who described himself as "communist" with his ''[[Project for a Philosophical Community]]''.

The author [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] has a chapter on Restif in his novel'' [[The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto]]''.

The French novelist Catherine Rihoit made Restif de la Bretonne a major character of her 1982 novel ''La Nuit de Varenne''. It was made into a movie during the same year, a French-Italian production named ''[[La Nuit de Varennes]]'' (French title, in English, ''[[That Night in Varennes]])'' or ''Il mondo nuovo'' (Italian title, in English, ''The New World''). [[Jean-Louis Barrault]] played Restif. The movie also had [[Marcello Mastroianni]] as [[Casanova]] and [[Harvey Keitel]] as [[Thomas Paine]].

In his analysis of the satirical poem "Ode To Buggers," [[David M. Halperin]] suggested that Restif's writing may have drawn from internal conflicts surrounding his sexuality. There is much scholarly debate concerning the veracity of this conclusion.

Restif was a "pornographer" in the modern sense of the word, being a writer of graphic depictions of sex. However, he was also a "pornographer" in the Ancient Greek sense of the word, as he wrote about the day-to-day life of prostitutes, and concerned himself with their well-being. It was the latter definition which he accepted as the rightful use of the word.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kendrick|first1=Walter|title=The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture|date=1987|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles|isbn=0-520-20729-7|pages=19–20|edition=First}}</ref>

==Works==
[[File:Houghton FC7.R3135.781d (A) - Restif de La Bretonne, La decouverte australe - frontispiece.jpg|thumb|Frontispiece from ''La Découverte Australe par un Homme Volant'', 1781.]]
The most noteworthy of his works are:
*''[[Le Pied de Fanchette]]'', a novel (1769), the story of a pretty French orphan girl who is hounded by shoe-fetishists.
*''Le Pornographe'' (1769), a plan for regulating prostitution which is said to have been actually decreed by the [[Emperor Joseph II]], and some detached elements have been adopted by continental nations.
*''[[Le Paysan perverti]]'' (1775), an erotic novel with a moral purpose, which was a success, causing him to follow it with "La Paysanne Pervertie" (1784).<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k299799 galica.bnf.fr]</ref>
*''[[La Vie de mon père]]'' (1779).
*''[[La Découverte Australe par un Homme-Volant]]'' (1781),<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1019190 gallica.bnf.fr]</ref> a work of proto-[[French science fiction|science-fiction]] known for its prophetic inventions.
*''[[Les Contemporaines]]'' (42 vols., 1780–1785), a vast collection of short stories.
*''[[Ingenue Saxancour]]'', a novel (1785).
*''[[Les Nuits de Paris]]'' (beginning 1786: reportage including the [[September Massacres]] of 1792).
* ''[[Anti-Justine]]'' (1793), a response to the earlier editions of the [[Marquis de Sade]]'s ''[[Justine (Sade)|Justine]]''.
*The extraordinary autobiography of ''[[Monsieur Nicolas]]'' (16 vols., 1794–1797), in which at the age of sixty he has set down his remembrances, his notions on ethical and social points, his hatreds, and above all his numerous loves, both real and fancied. In it, Restif relates the beginnings of his sexual awakenings between 1738 and 1744, when he remembers experiencing sexual stimulations during very early childhood. However, the last two volumes are practically a separate and much less interesting work in the opinion of the redactors of the [[1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]].
*''Les Posthumes'' (1802) is an example of early [[space opera]] and an exercise of [[exolinguistics]].<ref>[[Rob Latham]],
''Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=WobBDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 p. 133]</ref>

==Works in English translation==
* {{cite book|title=Monsieur Nicolas; Or, The Human Heart Unveiled: The Intimate Memoirs of Restif de la Bretonne (6 Volume Set)|publisher=J. Rodker |date=1931|asin=B0006DCVPI}}
* {{cite book|title=Monsieur Nicolas; Or, The Human Heart Unveiled: Abridged Edition, Translated and edited by Robert Baldick.|publisher=Mayflower |date=1968}}
* {{cite book|title=Les Nuits de Paris; or, The Nocturnal Spectator: A Selection|publisher=Random House Books |date=1964|asin=B0007DL5YA}}
* {{cite book|title=Fanchette's Pretty Little Foot: The French Orphan Girl |publisher=Sunny Lou Publishing |date=2020|isbn= 978-1735477619}}
* {{cite book|title=The Perverted Peasant, or The Dangers of the City (Parts 1 and 2)|publisher=Sunny Lou Publishing |date=2024|isbn= 978-1955392716}}
* {{cite book|title=The Pornographer |publisher=Sunny Lou Publishing |date=2021|isbn= 978-1955392099}}
* {{cite book|title=The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man|publisher=Black Coat Press|date=2016|isbn= 978-1612275123}}

==See also==
* [[Society of the Friends of Truth]]
* [[Victor d'Hupay]]
* [[Projet de communauté philosophe]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|25em}}

==References==
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Restif, Nicolas Edme|volume=23|page=200}}
* Philippe Barr, [https://admit-lab.com/ Rétif de la Bretonne Spectateur nocturne:] une esthétique de la pauvreté,]] Rodopi, "Faux-Titre", 2012, {{ISBN|9042035390}}
* "Bibliographie et Iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne"
* ''Monsieur Nicolas: Or, The Human Heart Laid Bare'', translated, edited and abridged by [[Robert Baldick]] (1966) (Autobiography)
* A. Porter: ''Restif's Novels: Or, An Autobiography in Search of an Author'' (1967)
* [[Mark Poster]]: ''The Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne'' (1971)

==Further reading==

* {{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Adam |author-link=Adam Roberts (British writer) |title=The History of Science Fiction |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-56957-8 |edition=2nd |series=Palgrave Histories of Literature |pages=114–115 |language=en |chapter=Pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary SF |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_5 |oclc=956382503 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gq7LDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114}}

==External links==
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* {{Gutenberg author | id=32250| name=Restif de La Bretonne}}
* {{Internet Archive author |search=( (Rétif OR Retif OR Restif) AND (Nicolas-Edme OR Bretonne) )}}
* [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/restif_de_la_bretonne Entry in Science Fiction Encyclopedia]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061116051334/http://www.retifdelabretonne.net/ Official Website of "Société Rétif de La Bretonne"] with biography, bibliography, news, articles, etc. and subscription at [https://web.archive.org/web/20061116051424/http://www.retifdelabretonne.net/newsletter/suscribe.php newsletter].
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.terresdecrivains.com/article.php3?id_article=159 Terre de ecrivains]

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Isle of Demons

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{{Short description|Phantom island in Canada}}
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The '''Isle of Demons''' is a [[phantom island]] once associated with [[Quirpon Island]], [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], in Canada. It was generally shown as two islands. It began appearing on maps during the early 16th century and disappeared from maps during the mid-17th century. It could have been a translation from First Nations people who often avoided areas where a person had died, believing it was haunted by spirits.

It was said by some that the island was populated by demons and wild beasts which would torment and attack any ships that passed or anyone who was foolish enough to wander onto the island.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meier |first1=Allison |title=How an Imaginary Island Stayed on Maps for Five Centuries |url=https://hyperallergic.com/316836/how-an-imaginary-island-stayed-on-maps-for-five-centuries/ |website=Hyperallergic |accessdate=26 October 2020 |date=20 September 2016}}</ref> A [[French nobility|French noblewoman]], [[Marguerite de La Rocque]], was marooned on an island during the mid-16th century, allegedly because of an affair with a young man on her ship.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Foreman |first1=Amanda |title=Castaways and Other Lonely Survivors |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/castaways-and-other-lonely-survivors-11585846465 |website=Wall Street Journal |accessdate=26 October 2020 |date=2 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Mary B. |title=Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern Europe |date=1999 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca |isbn=9781501705069 |pages=35–39}}</ref> This island is a possible site of their abandonment, and residents and visitors have claimed to see the couple.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} Many historians, novelists, poets, and singers have retold the story of Marguerite abandoned on the island. It is believed that the island of the marooning is possibly [[Harrington Harbour, Quebec]]. {{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

The Isle of Demons first appears in the 1508 map of [[Johannes Ruysch]]. It may simply be a relocated version of the older legendary island of [[Satanazes]] ("Devils" in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]) that was normally depicted in 15th century maps in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just north of [[Antillia]]. With the Atlantic better mapped with the trans-oceanic voyages of the 1490s, Ruysch may simply have transplanted old Satanazes to a more suitable location.

[[File:TerreNeuve16e.jpg|thumb|150px|The "Isola de Demoni", in the 1556 printed map of Giacomo Gastaldi.]]
The Isle of Demons continues to appear as late as the 1556 map of "La Nueva Francia" by Giacomo Gastaldi – that is, after [[Jacques Cartier]]'s expeditions (1534, 1535, 1541) had explored much of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The "Isola de Demoni" is depicted by Gastaldi as a substantially large island roughly encompassing northern Newfoundland, with figurative depictions of flying demons.

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W. C. Sellar

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{{Short description|Scottish humorist (1898–1951)}}
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'''Walter Carruthers Sellar''' (27 December 1898 – 11 June 1951) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[humour]]ist who wrote for the magazine [[Punch magazine|''Punch'']]. He is known best for the 1930 book ''[[1066 and All That]]'', a farcical guide to "all the history you can remember," which he wrote together with [[R. J. Yeatman]].

==Early life==
Sellar was born at [[Golspie]] in [[Sutherland]], the son of Patrick Plenderleath Sellar, a farmer, who was a son of [[Patrick Sellar]] who had taken a major role in the [[Highland clearances]] and was the father of [[William Young Sellar]], a Scottish classical scholar.

He won a scholarship to [[Fettes College]] in Edinburgh, where he was Head Boy in 1917. He quit school at the height of the [[First World War]], and joined the [[British Army]]. Having attended an Officer Cadet Unit, he was commissioned in the [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]] as a [[second lieutenant]] on 31 October 1917.<ref name="LG 16 November 1917 ">{{London Gazette |issue= 30385 |date= 16 November 1917 |page= 11913 |supp= y }}</ref> He earned a degree in modern history at [[Oriel College, Oxford]] (which, as recorded in ''1066 and All That'', was awarded by means of an [[aegrotat]] in 1922).

It was at Oriel that he met his contemporary Robert Yeatman, and began a lifelong friendship with him. Although the two produced substantial work together, they were entirely different personalities: Sellar was somewhat shy and introverted, although he enjoyed acting. He wrote melancholy [[poetry]] in addition to humour.

==Teaching career==
After quitting Oriel, Sellar worked as a schoolmaster at his old school [[Fettes College]], quitting in 1928 when he relocated to [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire|Great Marlow]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] in the hope of becoming a full-time writer.

However, the financial burdens of bringing up two daughters caused him to take a job at [[Canford School]] in [[Dorset]] from the start of the school year in 1929, and he taught at [[Charterhouse School]] from 1932 until his death. At first he taught history, but later taught English and became Housemaster of Daviesites from 1939.

During the period 1946-1950 he was again teaching history at Charterhouse, and even during his late years Sellar retained his sense of humour, for example putting on as the school play one year two trials. The first, in which he was both the King of Spain and the Lord Chief Justice of England, was the trial of [[Christopher Columbus]] (played by the Head Boy) for the heinous crime of discovering America. The second, in his words "the most important negligence trial in history" was of course the trial of [[Guy Fawkes]] "in that he did fail to blow up the Houses of Parliament".

==Writing==
Sellar had begun to contribute to ''Punch'' in 1925 when three humorous short stories of his were published (he also contributed to other journals about this time). His collaboration with his old University colleague Yeatman, who was also writing for ''Punch'', seems to have begun in 1928 during his period out of teaching. The first part of ''1066 And All That'' appeared in ''Punch'' on 10 September 1930, taking its title from [[Robert Graves]]' autobiography ''[[Good-Bye to All That]]''. Sellar's contribution is particularly noted in the comic exaggerations and name confusions; his knowledge of English literature also inspired the book's many literary allusions and [[pastiche]]s.

After completing the book, Sellar worked with Yeatman again on a sequel, ''And Now All This'', a parody of general knowledge, including subjects as diverse as geography, knitting and topology.

The 1933 book ''Horse Nonsense'' was credited to the two but is largely the work of Yeatman, while ''Garden Rubbish And Other Country Bumps'' is also credited to the two but largely Sellar's work.{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}}

==Publications==
* ''[[1066 and All That]]'' (1930), {{ISBN|0-413-61880-3}}
* ''And Now All This'' (1932), {{ISBN|0-413-56080-5}}
* ''Horse Nonsense'' (1933), {{ISBN|0-413-73990-2}}
* ''Garden Rubbish and other Country Bumps'' (1936), {{ISBN|0-417-02050-3}}

== References ==
<references />

==Sources==
* {{Cite ODNB|first=Henry|last=Summerson|title=Sellar, Walter Carruthers|id=39442}}

==Further reading==
* Purdue, W C [https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/speaking-volumes-wc-sellars-and-rj-yeatmans-1066-and-all-that/159911.article "Speaking Volumes: W.C. Sellar's and R.J. Yeatman's ''1066 and All That''{{-"}}], ''[[Times Higher Education|The Times Higher Education Supplement]]'', 29 August 1997. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

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Colin Kapp

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{{Short description|British science fiction author}}
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'''Derek Ivor Colin Kapp''' (3 April 1928<ref name="freebmd">[https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=158130443:3794&d=bmd_1520860260 "C Kapp birth record transcription"], freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2018</ref> – 3 August 2007), known also as '''Colin Kapp,''' was a British [[science fiction author]] known best for his stories about the [[Unorthodox Engineers]].

He was born in [[Southwark]], south London, 3 April 1928<ref name="freebmd"/> to John L. F. Kapp and Annie M.A. (née Towner).<ref>[https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl?start=1927&end=1927&sq=1&eq=1&type=Marriages&vol=1d&pgno=87&db=bmd_1520860260&jsexec=1&mono=0&v=MTUyMTI0ODAxOToxNGVlNDQzMjQ5NjE0MDYyMTU4NGZjMDQxNjcwNTUxZTViMDY2Y2Q2&searchdef=db%3Dbmd_1520860260%26end%3D1927%26eq%3D4%26vol%3D1d%26s_surname%3Dtowner%26pgno%3D87%26sq%3D1%26surname%3Dkapp%26districtid%3D243%26start%3D1927%26type%3DMarriages&action=Find "Parents marriage record transcription"], freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2018</ref>

As an electronic engineer, he began his career with [[Mullard]] Electronics then specialised in [[electroplating]] techniques, eventually becoming a freelance consultant engineer.

==Works==

===Cageworld series===
{{Main|Cageworld series}}
# ''Search for the sun!'' (1982) (also published as ''Cageworld'')
# ''The Lost worlds of Cronus'' (1982)
# ''The Tyrant of Hades'' (1984)
# ''Star Search'' (1984)

===Chaos series===
* ''[[The Patterns of Chaos]]'' (1972)
* ''[[The Chaos Weapon]]'' (1977)

===Standalone novels===
* ''[[The Dark Mind]]'' (1964) (also published as ''Transfinite Man'')
* ''[[The Wizard of Anharitte]]'' (1973)
* ''The Survival Game'' (1976)
* ''[[Manalone]]'' (1977)
* ''The Ion War'' (1978)
* ''The Timewinders'' (1980) {{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

===Short stories===

==== Unorthodox Engineers ====
*"The Railways Up On Cannis" (1959)
*"The Subways of Tazoo" (1964)
*"The Pen and the Dark" (1966)
*"Getaway from Getawehi" (1969)
*"The Black Hole of Negrav" (1975)
Collected in ''[[Unorthodox Engineers|The Unorthodox Engineers]]'' (1979)

====Other stories====
*"Breaking Point" (1959)
*"Survival Problem" (1959)
*"Lambda I" (1962)
*"The Night-Flame" (1964)
*"Hunger Over Sweet Waters" (1965)
*"Ambassador to Verdammt" (1967)
*"The Imagination Trap" (1967)
*"The Cloudbuilders" (1968)
*"[https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10#page/n103/mode/2up I Bring You Hands]" (1968)
*"[[Gottlos]]" (1969), notable for having (along with [[Keith Laumer]]'s [[Bolo (tank)|Bolo]] series) inspired [[Steve Jackson (US game designer)|Steve Jackson]]'s classic game of 21st century tank warfare [[Ogre (board game)|Ogre]].<ref name="OGRE Faq">[http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/articles/notes.html Ogre FAQ], Steve Jackson</ref>
*"The Teacher" (1969)
*"Letter from an Unknown Genius" (1971)
*"What the Thunder Said" (1972)
*"Which Way Do I Go For Jericho?" (1972)
*"The Old King's Answers" (1973)
*"Crimescan" (1973)
*"What The Thunder Said" (1973)
*"Mephisto and the Ion Explorer" (1974)
*"War of the Wastelife" (1974)
*"Cassius and the Mind-Jaunt" (1975)
*"Something in the City" (1984)
*"An Alternative to Salt" (1986)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991009162905/http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7106/kapp.htm |date=9 October 1999 |title=Biography }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20011120134923/http://jarl.errors.no/sf/kapp/ Bibliography] kept by [[Jarl Totland]]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041209033905/http://www.scifan.com/writers/kk/KappColin.asp Bibliography] at SciFan

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