The courtesans
Subtitle: the demi-monde in nineteenth-century France.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: World Pub. Co.
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Prostitution -- France -- History
Table of contents: title: 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 camèlias; 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 bibliograhy (p. 245-249)