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Les belles femmes de Paris / par des hommes de lettres et des hommes du monde.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DC36.2 .B45 1839 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Women--France--Biography.
- Women.
- Actresses--France--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Ballerinas--France--Biography.
- Ballerinas.
- Women singers--France--Biography.
- Women singers.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (420 pages, 26 unnumbered leaves of plates; 403 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates) : portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Belles femmes de Paris et de la province
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Au Bureau, 1839.
- Notes:
- Consists of short biographies of notable French women, many of them actresses, singers, and dancers.
- The plates are lithographic portraits, some by A. Constant, E. Desmaisons, and H. Robillard after designs by A. de Chatillon.
- Vol. 2 has title: Les belles femmes de Paris et de la province, par Messieurs de Balzac, Roger de Beauvoir, Raymond Brucker, Cordellier Delanoue, Emile Deschamps, Esquiros, Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Gozlan, Guénot Lecointe, Arsène Houssaye, Victor Hugo, Jules Janin, Juge, Alphonse Karr, Charles Lemesle, Méry, Jules Sandeau, Alexandre Soumet, Van-Noé, Mesdames Emile de Girardin, de Narbonne-Pelet, etc. Only a few of the pieces are actually signed.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Craig D. Ritchie Bequest Fund.
- OCLC:
- 249353982
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