Les Chansons de Bilitis

Collection of erotic poetry, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "The Songs of Bilitis French: Les Chansons de Bilitis) is a collection of erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs and published in Paris in 1894 ... The book's sensual poems are in the manner of Sappho; the introduction claims they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman of Ancient Greece called Bilitis, a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, to whose 'life' Louÿs dedicated a small section of his book. On publication, the volume deceived even the most expert of scholars. Though the poems were actually clever fabulations, authored by Louÿs himself, they are still considered important literature.”