Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

by Virginia Rounding

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Marie Duplessis, Cora Pearl, La Paiva and La Presidente, the four women whose lives and legends are examined in this fascinating book, were all representatives of the golden age of the French courtesan. In the reign of Emperor Napoleon III the opulent and pampered demi-monde became almost indistinguishable from the haut-monde, with mythical reputations growing up around its most glittering and favoured celebrities. Marie Duplessis became the prototype of the virtuous courtesan when Alexandre Dumas Fils portrayed her as Marguerite Gautier in La dame aux Camelias. Apollonie Sabatier, known as La Presidente, put men of letters and other arts...Read more
  • ISBN10 1582342601
  • ISBN13 9781582342603
  • Publish Date 7 July 2003 (first published 16 June 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 27 May 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Bloomsbury USA
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English