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The courtesans, the demi-monde in nineteenth-century France.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--France--History.
- Prostitution.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 256 pages : plates (part color) portraits (portrait color). ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1967]
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- Blanche d'Antigny; Marie-Ernestine Antigny.
- La Barucci; Giulia Benini.
- Cora Pearl; Eliza Emma Crouch.
- Esther Guimond; le Lion, la Paysanne.
- La païva; Thérèse Lachmann, later Mme. Villoing, later Mme. la Marquise de Païva, later Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck.
- Mademoiselle Maximum; Léonide Leblanc.
- Marguerite Bellanger; Julie Leboeuf, later Mme. Kulbach.
- Caroline Letessier.
- Alice Ozy; Julie-Justice Pilloy.
- La dame aux camélias; Alphonsine Plessis, called Marie Duplessis, later Mme. la Comtesse de Perregaux.
- La Présidente; Aglaé-Joséphine Savatier, later Apollonie Sabatier.
- Mogador; Élisabeth-Céleste Vénard, later Mme. la Comtesse de Chabrillan.
- Selected bibliography (p. 245-249).
- OCLC:
- 408393
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