The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia by

The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia

with Patricia Clancy (Translator), Jeanne Allen (Translator)

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A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalized Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the French Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house ci...

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