After that she spends time with Mme. C and the Abbé T., and spies on them on multiple occasions, while they discuss libertine political and religious philosophy just before they engage in, and sometimes during, various acts of sex. (Abbé T. is clearly the same character as figures in another, eponymous, coming-of-age, soft-core libertine novel published that same year or possibly one year earlier: "Ecclesiastical Laurels", or "Abbot T.'s Campaigns with the Triumph of the Nuns", attributed to Jacques Rochette La Morlière; this latter novel is one of several titles listed towards the end of "Therese the Philosopher" as belonging to the library owned by the count, which library he loans to Therese as part of a bet.)