Armoflède tries to seduce Angilbert (The Knights of the Swann, vol.3, Fauche, 1797)
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The knight Angilbert tells his friends about an adventure that happened to him at his country house, which has a public bath. While he was quietly going there one day, a woman came out and met him, even though he had done everything possible to avoid running into anyone. Angilbert describes her:
She had for all clothing a wet, excessively short shirt, and long black hair, down over her shoulders and throat. When it was possible for me to distinguish more or less her figure, I saw with a new surprise that she had entirely veiled her face with a handkerchief, which she had twisted around her head; this circumstance gave me a sort of curiosity, and looking at her with attention as she approached, I was keenly struck by the perfection of her size and the dazzling brilliance of her whiteness..... (Genlis, Les chevaliers du Cygne t. III, Hambourg, P. F. Fauche, 1797, p. 38-39)
This is actually the perfidious Armoflède, an unparalleled seductress who charms knights to make a name for herself at court and to take pleasure, before betraying them.
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