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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The book’s first chapters were written at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. I thank Joan W. Scott for her generous intellectual support and a fabulous year away (2005–2006), and the amazing staff of the IAS, especially Gabriella Hanson and Linda Geracci, and my IAS colleague, Michael Peletz, with whom I was fortunate enough to spend the same year there and who understood this project long before I did. The rest of the book would still not have seen the light of day had it not been for Dominic Thomas, chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at University of California at Los Angeles from 2005 to 2011, and the funding generously provided by the UCLA Academic Senate and Dean of the Humanities that supported the research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, and the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Thermes de Cluny from 2006 to 2011. I also thank the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for additional funds for image reproductions and permissions. Enthusiasm, precious advice, and access to rare materials carried this book forward. I thank Monique Nemer, who was the source of great references and philological debates; Pierre Lartigue, who knew all the nineteenthcentury forgeries but sadly didn’t live to see this artifact; Emmanuel Pierrat, who opened his personal library of rare books of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury curiosa; Sylvain Bellenger and Jean-Loup Champion, who guided me through art historical issues; and the staff of the Musée national du Moyen Âge-Thermes de Cluny, especially Marie-Alice Virlouvet, Jeannine Mercier, and Jean-Christophe Ton-That. I am deeply indebted to Peggy McCracken for her enduring support and guidance in all aspects of intellectual and professional life, Virginie Greene for her great generosity, James D. Schultz for intellectual companionship and epistolary exchange, and my writing companions Christine Chism, Caroline Ford, Barbara Fuchs, Hannah Landecker, and Sarah Stein. I have also 338 Acknowledgments benefited greatly from the suggestions and support of Bill Burgwinkle, Howard Bloch, Sarah Kay, and Helen Solterer. I especially thank colleagues who gave me an opportunity to test my ideas: Jonathan Strauss, and the faculty and graduate students at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; Noah D. Guynn at the University of California, Davis; Deborah McGrady and the graduate students at the University of Virginia; Cynthia J. Brown, Jody Enders, and Carol Pasternack at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Maurice Samuels at the University of Pennsylvania; and the faculty of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. I am most grateful to Alisa Belanger for wonderful translations from modern French and her precious editorial help; to Katherine McLoone, my research assistant of many years who must have seen nearly all the references go through her most able and professional hands; and to Michael Weinberg for his bibliographic assistance. The one that comes last comes first in this Pornographic Archaeology: I thank Laure Murat, whose curiosity and encouragement transformed a passing thought into a research project and whose love and patience nurtured it until it became a book. ...

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