Justine, Juliette, Eugénie ~ but no Pauline that I can find. Should be, it's
such a Sadean name somehow, and we have _The Perils of Pauline_ by Charles
Goddard (the jolly hockeysticks version of the Divine M., summed up in the
following:<"You dear, silly boy," she cried, returning a step and clasping
him in an impetuous embrace. "You are the nicest brother in all the
world -sometimes -- but just now I think that adventure is nicer than
brothers-- or husbands. I'm having the time of my life, Harry boy, and I'm
going on and on, and on with it until I've seen all the wild and wicked
people and places in the world.">) Then there was _Pauline 1880_ by the
great French poet Pierre Jean Jouve with a heroine who enters a convent,
then has a sinful adulterous relationship with a Comte of whatever, whom she
eventually murders. Not to forget the pseudonym 'Pauline Réage' for the male
author of _L'histoire d'O_. Did one of those put you on the track?
Best
Martin
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