Les belles femmes de Paris
By: par des hommes de lettres et des hommes du monde
Publisher: Au Bureau
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Women; Biography; Actresses; Ballerinas; Women singers
Other titles: Belles femmes de Paris et de la province
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.