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Auguste Debay and Just-Alexandre Jaussé
Debay and Josa
also: Дебе и Жозан, Debay and Josa
French authors of racy popular-medicine manuals on marital and sexual hygiene, translated and widely (if furtively) read in 19th-century Russia; the melancholic reads them in secret.
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- Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) §8 Debay and Josa
Auguste Debay and Just-Just-Alexandre Jaussé (rendered 'Josa' from the Russian transliteration Жозан) were French authors of racy popular-medicine manuals on marital and sexual hygiene, translated and widely read (if furtively) in 19th-century Russia.