{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-courtesan-in-nineteenthcentury-paris-9780803282735","title":"Memoirs of a Courtesan in NineteenthCentury Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis extraordinary document and memoir offers a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman - Celeste Mogador. It also presents an inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of 19th-century France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the first page, [Mogador] declares her intention to tell the real story of a courtesan's experiences. . . . Céleste's telegraphic, mostly unadorned, literary style supports her claim to authenticity—she was almost entirely uneducated, and at 15 could barely read. But it is the palpable pleasure she takes in seeing people and events clearly, even recognizing her own flaws and those of the people she loves and wishes to think well of, that gives her book the complexity of truth—the kind of complex truth we often look for in modern fiction.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mogador (born Céleste Venard in 1824) was the queen of the Bal Mabille and gained her fame in Parisian dance halls and as an equestrienne, a daring circus rider, at the Hippodrome. Her life, exemplary of bohemian Paris in the 1840s and 1850s, bridges the periods of the Second Republic and the Third Empire. . . . [Mogador's memoirs] contribute to our understanding of how desire was presented and consumed in 19th-century Paris. . . . Refreshing details of daily life are everywhere in these pages, as [Mogador] tells us what was in a bouquet and what she and others wore. She recounts the feints, slights, and homage experienced at a ball, the fevers of the gambling tables, the drama of a boar hunt in the countryside on a nobleman's estate. . . . The settings of social life, high and low, in 19th-century Paris are etched in many memorable passages.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  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","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405280125271,"sku":"9780803282735","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803282735.jpg?v=1730489422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-courtesan-in-nineteenthcentury-paris-9780803282735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}