Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Sarah Nichols, Catherine Hewitt
Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
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Sarah Nichols, Catherine Hewitt
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Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret

Sarah Nichols, Catherine Hewitt with Catherine Hewitt (Narrator)

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Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept...

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