Letter to the President is, according to the Journal of the Goncourt, a "Rabelaisian letter," the "pornographic Gautier trip from Geneva to Rome through Venice: An eight-page letter addressed to Madame Sabatier, singer, he calls President.
Gautier delivered an exercise of lexical jewelry, borrowing the words of the old troubadours of Gaul rehabilitated by Rabelais; sperm eloquence that reflects the art and skill in handling the crudest language, touched a certain prudishness, it will definitely brighten your mood to Pantagruelists but may blush to those less daring souls