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Memoirs of a courtesan in nineteenth-century Paris / Celeste Mogador ; translated and with an introduction by Monique Fleury Nagem.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chabrillan, Celeste Venard de, comtesse, 1824-1909., author.
- Series:
- European women writers series Memoirs of a courtesan in nineteenth-century Paris
- Standardized Title:
- Adieux au monde. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actors--France--Biography.
- Actors.
- Women authors, French--19th century--Biography.
- Women authors, French.
- Chabrillan, Celeste Venard de, comtesse, 1824-1909.
- Chabrillan, Celeste Venard de, comtesse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When Céleste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not only a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous, and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman but also an exceedingly rare inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of nineteenth-century France. Writing to conciliate judges and creditors, Mogador (born Céleste Venard in 1824) explains how with tenacity, wit, and audacity, she managed to escape a difficult childhood and subsequent life of prostitution to become, successively, a darling of the dance halls, a circus rider, and an actress, all the while attracting wealthy young men who vied for her favor. Although her account gives readers a peek into the rakish demimonde made famous by Verdi's opera La Traviata, its greatest value lies in its candid picture of a spunky, self-educated woman who doggedly transformed herself into an esteemed and prolific novelist and playwright, who fell in love with a count and married him, and who made her name synonymous with the bohemian life of the 1840s and 1850s in Paris.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780803202139
- 080320213X
- OCLC:
- 50753843
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