Courtesans
Subtitle: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: November 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780060935146
Subjects: Modern - 19th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; General
First sentence: IN HIS ESSAY La Vie Parisienne Sacheverell Sitwell tells a story of two small boys who were taken for a walk by Prince Paul Murat one Sunday morning in Paris in the 1860s.