Notable or notorious?
Subtitle: a gallery of Parisians
By: by Gordon Wright
Series: Portable Stanford
Publisher: Stanford Alumni Association
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Intellectual life; Biography; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147).
Table of contents: title: Delphine Gay de Girardin (1804-1855), Princess of the salons; title: Eugène Sue (1804-1857), Master of the serial thriller; title: Allan Kardec (1804-1869), Apostle of spiritism; title: Clémence Royer (1830-1902), Polymath out of season; title: Juliette Adam (1836-1936), Egeria of the Republic; title: Marquis de Morès, Adventurer in four worlds; title: Diana Vaughan (Léo Taxil, 1854-1907), Satanist and Saint; title: Ernest Constans (1833-1913), Political buccaneer; title: Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923), Artist for the masses; title: Charles Péguy (1873-1914), Ambiguous icon.