| The case against Mr Strauss-Kahn hinges on whether he knew that the women who attended soirées libertines, or group-sex parties, often organised in his honour, were paid. |
| The younger sister, Henrietta Mendelssohn, was not handsome enough to enthrall the libertines of the salon. |
| Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this. |
| Even the various atheistic libertines who thought all morality was an illusion believed that a world without constraint would be superior to the religious status quo. |
| On 16 May the libertines took to the streets in a drunken protest and attempted to burn down a house that was supposedly full of Frenchmen. |
| The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. |
