The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret

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He was a gent of strong opinions, and he shared them with those he met: "You must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life''; "be nomadic. The Mistress of Paris is not just a biography of a fascinating woman, but an in depth look at the France of the 19th century, and of the hugely different levels of society in place, from desperate poverty to lavish wealth.

There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. The illustration and painting style transports us into a world devoid of people but brimming with artistic expression. Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. a fascinating biography…Full of detail and astute observation, the book is a remarkable tale of a woman who never stopped aiming high, but whose personal life was shrouded in mystery.

The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the.

Catherine Hewitt has had a long career in academia, with a special interest in 19th-century French art, literature and social history. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter.

It feels as if the book is one big networking party as she moves from one notable name to the other.

I can assure you there will be many recognizable names and events the courtesan is linked to, some very sensational affairs. One wrong turn in life can lead to another and situations can escalate horribly quickly out of our control.Benjamin Franklin, who is at the end of his career as America’s ambassador to France, into helping England. Mally Becker's Revolutionary War-era historical mysteries continue to delight, with both their originality and their solid sense of time and place. I really enjoyed this book with its intimate setting and style and found many interesting parallels to how life can be nowadays. But, the more I stayed inside, the more I realized that everything that I loved about Paris had been put on hold - the city was frozen.