Les Grandes Horizontales, Virginia Rounding

by Virginia Rounding

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Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest Les Grandes Horizontales Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 0747568596 Title: Les Grandes Horizontales The Fast Free Shipping Author: Virginia Rounding Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Year Published: 2004 Number of Pages: 352 Book Binding: Paperback Prizes: N/A Book Condition: VERYGOOD SKU: CIN0747568596VG Item description The lives and legends of four women are examined in this fascinating book, all representatives of the golden age of the French courtesan. In the reign of Emperor Napoleon III the opulent and pampered demi-monde became almost indistinguishable from the haut-monde, with mythical reputations growing up around its most glittering and favoured celebrities. Marie Duplessis became the prototype of the virtuous courtesan when Alexandre Dumas Fils portrayed her in La dame aux Camellas. Apollonie Sabatier put men of letters at ease amidst the bawdy talk of her salon. The Russian Jew La Paiva appeared intent to prey on rich young men of Paris. The English beauty who called herself Cora Pearl was another 'foreign threat', with her athletic physique, sixty

• ISBN: 0747568596
• Condition: Very Good

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