He mowed down the Old French Regime with a guillotine; he shook the power of England in the Old Continent and arrived with his army to the very heart of the land of the pharaohs. Napoleon Bonaparte has gone down in history as an iron military man and a brilliant strategist. His achievements were unparalleled and well known. So much so that it is tiring to list them.
However, just as true as all of the above is that the most powerful man in Europe admitted to having lost his virginity to a prostitute after months of unsuccessful attempts to find a partner. And also that, despite the fact that it was a ‘shock’, he ended up recounting his experiences in a letter that, he hoped, would never see the light of day. She was wrong, because today we know her well.
«At that point, I had no intention of letting myself be carried away by scruples. He had tempted her not to think of running away from her when I pressed her with the reasons he had put before her, and he did not want her to start feigning an honesty that I had wanted to show he did not possess.
Although surprising, it was not the Sire who inaugurated this extravagant custom of narrating his opening night with hair and marks. Not much less. The practice was already common in history and had been replicated by countless historical figures. Each one more striking than the last.
Part of them have been collected in ‘erotic letters’, an essay that plunges into all those epistles related to the lowest instincts. Although the ones that interest us today are those in which their protagonists finally said goodbye to their virginity. The one that, once lost, cannot be recovered. Today, we tell you about some. From the wife of Ferdinand VII, to Marcel Proust.
Credits
Screenplay and production: Manuel P. Villatoro.
edition: Manuel Garré.
voiceover: Jesus Garcia Calero, Patxi Fernandez, Manuel P. Villatoro, Maria Rosemary and Manuel Garre.
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