The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret

by Catherine Hewitt

Book Overview

Catherine Hewitt's The Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret.

"A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our self-branding society." --The New York Times Book Review

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250120667
• ISBN13: 9781250120663
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"