It was conceived as a pleasure palace for the 18th century libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet.

The libertine novel was an 18th century literary genre of which the roots lay in the European but mainly French libertine tradition.

" Besant did not agree with this, taking an attitude more typical of her time ... Leadbeater's approach was not that of the libertine, for he taught self control and moderation in sexual habits ... but certainly he was frank in his talk of sex, as well as promoting a generally open attitude to the body that was forward-looking in the early years of the century.

* Marquis de Sade, the eighteenth century aristocrat, writer and libertine

Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton ( 21 December 1698 – 31 May 1731 ) was a powerful Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake, profligate, and alcoholic, was one of the few people in English history, and the first since the 15th century, to have been raised to a Dukedom whilst still a minor and not closely related to the monarch.

For example, in the late sixteenth century, they had become allied with the Society of Jesus and, with them, fought against libertine ideas perpetuated at the University of Padua in a larger cultural war.

Nevertheless, the century had a number of writers who were considered " libertine "; these authors ( like Théophile de Viau ( 1590 – 1626 ) and Charles de Saint-Evremond ( 1610 – 1703 )), inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius, professed doubts of religious or moral matters during a period of increasingly reactionary religious fervor.

Jacques Gruet ( died July 26, 1547 ) was a libertine and an atheist, who was put to death in Geneva during John Calvin's lifetime in the 16th century.

As played in 1823 by the star Frédérick Lemaître as a bluff, free-living, unblushing libertine, who committed horrible crimes without stint or compunction, he became phenomenally acclaimed in France.

Because of his religion, his libertine lifestyle, de Viau was banished from France in 1619 and traveled in England, though he returned to the court in 1620.

Examples of this type of man would be Giacomo Casanova and Don Juan, who were both reputed to have had many libertine affairs with women.

Starting with Tirso's work, Don Juan is portrayed as a wealthy, seductive libertine who devotes his life to seducing women, taking great pride in his ability to seduce women of all ages and stations in life.

In this sexually libertine society ( by Ibn Fattouma's standards ), the women and men do not marry, they share sexual partners and they share power over their children.

The Ghazals often seem from their outward vocabulary just to be love and wine songs with a predilection for libertine imagery, but generally imply spiritual experiences in the familiar symbolic language of classical Islamic Sufism.

The biography is problematic however, in that it appears to contradict itself with regards to Domitian's rule and personality, at the same time presenting him as a conscientious, moderate man, and as a decadent libertine.

All die with the exception of the Duc's daughter Julie, who is spared for becoming something of a libertine herself.

No theatrical events are mentioned in connection with the festivities, but the classicist Erich Segal saw Roman comedy, with its cast of impudent, free-wheeling slaves and libertine seniors, as imbued with the Saturnalian spirit.

As he characterized his opponents in general as the " pestilent herd of libertine scribblers with which the island is overrun ," it is no matter of surprise that the book made him many bitter enemies.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”

An agent named Guénée, charged by Major Henry with the task of inquiring into the question of his morals, picked up a collection of tales which represented Dreyfus as a gambler and a libertine, whose family had been obliged several times to pay his debts.

He lived as a libertine, engaging in numerous love affairs with members of both sexes.

Lindsay's voluptuous models ( played by Macpherson and Fischer ) live the libertine lives that Lindsay champions through his paintings and Lindsay has animated postprandial conversations with her husband.

In some respects he was a strange contradiction: one of the best commanders of light cavalry, he was extremely talented both on the battlefield and in outpost duty, was handsome, intelligent, well-educated, and witty ; yet, according to Marbot, he posed as a libertine and ruffian who “ might always be seen drinking, swearing, and smashing everything .” In this regard he was the archetypal hussar, flamboyant and fearless, with a cultivated swagger – an attitude epitomized by his remark that any hussar who was not dead by the age of thirty is a blackguard.

Given his reputation as something of a libertine, it did not take Dula long to take up with her cousin Laura.

Together with Queen Maria Leszczyńska, she formed a counterbalance to the libertine behaviour of her father-in-law and his court.

However, she is a sexual libertine with no intention of being monogamous, and this soon strains their relationship.

Themes of libertine novels were anti-clericalism, anti-establishment and eroticism.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

A libertine is one devoid of most moral restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behavior sanctioned by the larger society.

Some groups were indeed libertine because they considered bodily existence meaningless ; others praise chastity, and strongly prohibited any sexual activity, even within marriage.

The prosecutor was Philibert Berthelier, a member of a libertine family and son of a famous Geneva patriot, and the sessions were led by Pierre Tissot, Perrin's brother-in-law.

It was this period that Newton later remembered as the time he was " once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in West Africa.

As Ted Gioia notes, Heinlein “ has been accused of many things –- of being a libertine or a libertarian, a fascist or a fetishist, pre-Oedipal or just plain preposterous.

Toward the end, the remaining victims are murdered through methods like scalping, branding, and having their tongues and eyes cut out, as each libertine takes his turn to watch as voyeur.

In the city, meanwhile, he assumes the identity of the libertine Ernest.

They found the Dutch morals much too libertine.

Huston gained a reputation as a " lusty, hard-drinking libertine " during his first years as a writer in Hollywood.

Mel Brooks played a comic version of Louis XVI in The History of the World Part 1, portraying him as a libertine who has such a distaste for the peasantry he uses them as targets in skeet shooting.

The only lasting effect from the paper would be the incorporation of Wharton's libertine characteristics in the character of Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa, although Wharton would be only one of many models of libertine behaviour that Richardson would find in his life.

Her malevolent, libertine nature, however, is kept well hidden from most people, as she created a façade of moral righteousness which makes her look as a virtuous and puritan woman to almost everyone on her entourage.

The Palais-Royal was frequented by, among others, Marie Anne Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon, part of Philippe's father's libertine circle.

Ascetic Gnostics categorically forbade marriage ( which libertine Gnostics also did ) and abstained from sexual intercourse and meat all the time.

Tess does not succeed in meeting Mrs. d ' Urberville, but her libertine son Alec takes a fancy to Tess and secures her a position as poultry keeper on the d ' Urberville estate.

Charles was described as dependent and easily influenced by others, and his many affairs gave him the reputation of being a libertine.

Notable members of the college in its early years include Robert Blake, Cromwell's admiral and founder of British sea-power in the Mediterranean, the libertine poet and courtier John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and Christopher Wren.

The four principal characters are incredibly wealthy men, who are libertine, incredibly ruthless, and "... lawless and without religion, whom crime amused, and whose only interest lay in his passions ... and had nothing to obey but the imperious decrees of his perfidious lusts.