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The Mistress of Paris: The 19thCentury Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret,Used
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Catherine Hewitt's The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenthcentury Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret.A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hardworking, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our selfbranding society. The New York Times Book ReviewComtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by douard Manet and inspired mile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future King Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no comtesse.Valtesse was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid backstreet among the dregs of Parisian society. Yet she transformed herself into an enchantress who possessed a small fortune, three mansions, fabulous carriages, and art the envy of connoisseurs across Europe. A consummate showwoman, she ensured that her lifeand even her deathremained shrouded in just enough mystery to keep her audience hungry for more.Spectacularly evoking the sights and sounds of mid to late nineteenthcentury Paris in all its hedonistic glory, Catherine Hewitts biography tells, for the first time ever in English, the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who, though her roots were lowly, never stopped aiming high.
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