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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans
(Paperback, 2004)
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Author: Virginia Rounding
 The lives of four of the saucier women in 19th-century France: Marie Duplessis, Cora pearl, La Païva...
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Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1582344507 ISBN-13: 9781582344508 Sep 2004 Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA 337 pages Reprint Edition: 1 Language: English |
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Synopsis The lives of four of the saucier women in 19th-century France: Marie Duplessis, Cora pearl, La Païva, and La Présidente--all of whom accumulated wealth and reached high levels in society by selling their favors to politicians, generals, men about town, and the writers Feydeau and Flaubert.
| Size | | Length: | 337 pages | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Industry Reviews "a scholarly but generally readable tour....Well-researched, intelligent, and compassionate, but suffers unnecessarily from the absence of illustrations...." Kirkus Reviews (05/02/2003)
"Rounding presents a seductive vision...." New Yorker (08/11/2003)
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