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Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysantheme (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in Western literature. Loti's story, cast in the form of his fictionalized diary, describes the affair between a French naval officer and Chrysantheme, a temporary "bride" purchased in Nagasaki. More broadly, Loti's novel helped define the terms in which Occidentals perceived Japan as delicate, feminine, and, to use one of Loti's favorite words, "preposterous"-in...

When republican revolution comes to the kingdom of Illyria, King Christian and Queen Frederique, their young son Zara, and a small retinue of the abandoned court escape to Paris. They set up home there in much reduced, but still elegant, circumstances. Christian is a devotee of pleasure, while Frederique is staunch in her desire to maintain not only royal standards, but their effort to regain their throne. Christian descends into Paris' pleasure pits and seeks only passing joys, while Frederique determinedly schemes for restoration. Only now will the real import of their vividly...