person
Auguste Debay
Dr. Debay
also: Дебе, Debe
Auguste Debay (1802-1890), a French physician whose popular, semi-scandalous manuals on marital hygiene and sexuality circulated widely (and were widely moralized over) in translation; his name is invoked here for a mock memorial pamphlet.
Reading notes
- В книжном магазине "нового времени" §3 Dr. Debay
Auguste Debay (1802-1890), a French physician whose enormously popular, semi-scandalous manuals on marital hygiene and sexuality were widely translated and moralized over in Russia; the mock "pamphlet in his memory" plays on his association with prurient popular medicine.