The Courtesans by Joanna Richardson


ISBN
9781842120996
Published
Released
01 / 10 / 2000
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Dimensions
157 x 233 x 19mm

The Demi-Monde In 19th Century France

In Second Empire Paris there were a dozen courtesans who were generally known as "la garde": they were the queens of their profession, the women whom visiting princes thought it essential to see. They were the women who encrusted their bathroom taps with jewels, built palaces in the Champs-Elysees, fought duels in the Bois de Boulogne. They scandalised society and influenced the Press and politics. They also ensnared the husbands and lovers of the most beautiful women in Paris. Joanna Richardson presents her own version of "la garde" - twelve of the most distinguished courtesans in Paris during the golden age.

From the calculating Cora Pearl to the hideous la Paiva, who rose from the Moscow ghetto to indecent wealth and fame, and the admirable Madame Sabatier made famous by Baudelaire, to La Castiglione sent by Cavour to seduce Napoleon III, "la garde" people these pages with all the colour, intrigue, scandal and vivacity with which they peopled the demi-monde of 19th century Paris.
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