Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Informationen zum Autor Monique Fleury Nagem is a professor of modern languages at McNeese State University. She is the translator of Chantal Chawaf's Mother Love, Mother Earth and Redemption, as well as of Dominique Rolin's The Garden of Delights. Klappentext Monique Fleury Nagem is a professor of modern languages at McNeese State University. She is the translator of Chantal Chawaf's Mother Love, Mother Earth and Redemption, as well as of Dominique Rolin's The Garden of Delights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction 1. My Stepfather 2. The Hunter and the Hunted 3. The Lyon Insurrection 4. M. Vincent 5. Therese 6. Denise 7. The Fall 8. Effects of a Hospital Stay 9. The Bal Mabille 10. A "Queen's" Destiny 11. The Hippodrome 12. Lise's Yellow Dress 13. A Chariot Race 14. Travel Impressions 15. Acts of Desperation 16. Lise's Return 17. Dinner at the Cafe Anglais 18. Lionel 19. In the Country 20. Gust of Wind at Le Havre and Masked Ball at the Opera 21. Hooray for Reform! 22. Roulette 23. La Pepine 24. The June Insurrection 25. Chateau Life 26. Richard 27. Cholera Gives Me a Godchild 28. Dramatic Follies and Folies-Dramatiques 29. Proud Women! Passionate Men 30. London 31. Unfortunate Encounter 32. The Girl from the Provinces 33. Death Throes of a Fortune 34. To the Antipodes 35. My Law Lesson 36. The Varietes Theater 37. A Dead Woman and a Ghost 38. A Miner's Diary 39. Let My Destiny Be Done! Notes Works by Celeste de Chabrillan

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• Authors: Celeste Venard De Chabrillan, Celeste Mogador, MOGADOR CELESTE
• Assisted by: Monique F Nagem (Translation), Monique F. Nagem (Translation), Monique Fleury Nagem (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780803282735
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8273-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: European Women Writers; European Women Writers (Paperb; European Women Writers; European Women Writers (Paperb
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Biography / Autobiography