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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISBN 13: 9780803282735. Author: Celeste Mogador, Monique Fleury Nagem ISBN 10: 0803282737. Books will be free of page markings. Will be clean, not soiled or stained.

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When Celeste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not only a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous, and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman but also an exceedingly rare inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of nineteenth-century France. Writing to conciliate judges and creditors, Mogador (born Celeste Venard in 1824) explains how with tenacity, wit, and audacity, she managed to escape a difficult childhood and subsequent life of prostitution to become, successively, a darling of the dance halls, a circus rider, and an actress, all the while attracting wealthy young men who vied for her favor. Although her account gives readers a peek into the rakish demimonde made famous by Verdi's opera La Traviata, its greatest value lies in its candid picture of a spunky, self-educated woman who doggedly transformed herself into an esteemed and prolific novelist and playwright, who fell in love with a count and married him, and who made her name synonymous with the bohemian life of the 1840s and 1850s in Paris. Monique Nagem is a professor of modern languages at McNeese State University. She is the translator of Chantal Chawaf's Mother Love, Mother Earth and Redemption, as well as of Dominique Rolin's The Garden of Delights.

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University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803282735
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Book Title
Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Author
Celeste Mogador
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Literary Theory
Publication Year
2001
Number of Pages
325 Pages

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229mm
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152mm
Item Weight
454g

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Celeste Mogador
Series Title
European Women Writers
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United States

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