The Last LibertinesAn enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up duringand was eventually destroyed bythe French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, is the story of a group of "seven aristocrats whose youth coincided with the French monarchy's final moment of gracea moment when it seemed to the nation's elite that a style of life based on privilege and the spirit of caste might acknowledge