Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

Virginia Rounding

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring slow-paced
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In nineteenth-century Paris, the pampered demimonde became almost indistinguishable from the haut monde, with mythical reputations growing up around its most alluring and favored celebrities. Grandes Horizantales examines the lives of four of the ...

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