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Author Willey, Alan

Title Courtesan and Countess : the Lost and Found Memoirs of the French Consul¿s Wifef
Published Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Contents Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editorial Remarks; Foreword; Part 1: The Two Names; 1 Three Hostile Encounters; 2 Return to the Theatre; 3 Staging The Gold Robbers; 4 A New Home in the Country; 5 An Arrangement with Desmarest; 6 A New Protector; 7 The Sisters of France in the War; 8 The Horrors of the Siege; 9 Capitulation and Civil War; 10 Sheltering War Orphans; 11 Return to Le Vésinet; 12 Shadows from the Past; Part 2: Little Diary of the End of my Life; 13 Taking Refuge in Asnières; 14 A Career Summed up from a Hospital Bed; 15 Final Days; Postscript
Notes TimelineBibliography; Index
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Subject Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909.
SUBJECT Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909 fast
Subject Women authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography
Manners and customs
Women authors, French
SUBJECT France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051505
Victoria -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject France
Victoria
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Allen, Jeanne
Verhoeven, Jana
ISBN 9780522868852
0522868851