Pierre Louys (no, I don’t know how to get WordPress to put the oomlaut or whatever its called over the “y”) was born on this date, December 10, 1870.

The reason he is remembered much today is that Robert E. Howard gave his girlfriend Novalyne Price a copy of his collected works for Christmas in 1934.  Much of the book (I have a copy but haven’t read it) is erotic in nature.  Novalyne called it pornography. Howard strongly disagreed.

So just for giggles I thought I would do a birthday post on ol’ Pierre.