The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret
by
Catherine Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Catherine Hewitt's The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret.
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