Gabriel Honoré Riquetti, count of Mirabeau (1749-1791), revolutionary statesman, writer, diplomat and journalist. For his libertine youth, his father made him shut up in different prisons of State; sentenced to death for kidnapping and seduction of a young, was confined in the tower of Vincennes from 1777 to 1780, where write, besides political texts, two works that follow the "Voluptuous" current eighteenth century: Erotika Biblion and the Swinger quality. He also wrote letters to Sophie, a masterpiece of erotic literature and denunciation of despotism of the time.