Mémoires de Cora Pearl

by Cora Pearl

$1,750 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

The first edition (a later issue) of the memoirs of the renowned French courtesan Cora Pearl (1835-1886), published the year of her death. Before the publication, she is said to have contacted her former lovers, offering to anonymize their names in her autobiography if they paid her. Greatly successful, the..... More

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