Ribald Classic: A French Lesson
May, 1967
Balls were the big thing in the duchy of Milan, and to one of them came Bonnivet, a visiting Frenchman, all silk, beard and lasciviousness. Like a hunter on the trail, he moved among the dancers with a stealthy tread and a scanning eye, until he suddenly stopped, rooted to the parquet--he had a beast in view.It was surely the loveliest beast of the Lombardy plain, a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty in green velvet. Bonnivet stalked her carefully; he approached her with sweet, baited words. But the...
