Author : Samuel Putnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Americans
ISBN : IND:30000053317560
Paris was Our Mistress
Samuel Putnam
Paris Was Our Mistress
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The Mistress of Paris
Catherine Hewitt
Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250120670
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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 Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile 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 show-woman, she ensured that her life—and even her death—remained shrouded in just enough mystery to keep her audience hungry for more. Spectacularly evoking the sights and sounds of mid- to late nineteenth-century Paris in all its hedonistic glory, Catherine Hewitt’s 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.
Paris was Our Mistress
Samuel Putnam
Author : Samuel Putnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987-11-01
Category : Americans
ISBN : 1870495020
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The Postmistress of Paris
Meg Waite Clayton
Author : Meg Waite Clayton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062947000
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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK* A GMA BUZZ PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK* AN AMAZON BEST OF THE MONTH PICK, LITERATURE AND FICTION*A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel—a love story and a tale of high-stakes danger and incomparable courage—about a young American heiress who helps artists hunted by the Nazis escape from war-torn Europe. Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure. For her, learning to fly is freedom. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, this woman with an adorable dog and a generous heart joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Photographer Edouard Moss has escaped Germany with his young daughter only to be interned in a French labor camp. His life collides with Nanée’s in this sweeping tale of romance and danger set in a world aflame with personal and political passion. Inspired by the real life Chicago heiress Mary Jayne Gold, who worked with American journalist Varian Fry to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of France, The Postmistress of Paris is the haunting story of an indomitable woman whose strength, bravery, and love is a beacon of hope in a time of terror.
Mistress of the Ritz
Melanie Benjamin
Author : Melanie Benjamin
Publisher : Dell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399182259
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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. “A compelling portrait of a marriage and a nation at war from within.”—Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walk through its famous doors to be welcomed and pampered by Blanche Auzello and her husband, Claude, the hotel’s director. The Auzellos are the mistress and master of the Ritz, allowing the glamour and glitz to take their minds off their troubled marriage, and off the secrets that they keep from their guests—and each other. Until June 1940, when the German army sweeps into Paris, setting up headquarters at the Ritz. Suddenly, with the likes of Hermann Goëring moving into suites once occupied by royalty, Blanche and Claude must navigate a terrifying new reality. One that entails even more secrets and lies. One that may destroy the tempestuous marriage between this beautiful, reckless American and her very proper Frenchman. For in order to survive—and strike a blow against their Nazi “guests”—Blanche and Claude must spin a web of deceit that ensnares everything and everyone they cherish. But one secret is shared between Blanche and Claude alone—the secret that, in the end, threatens to imperil both of their lives, and to bring down the legendary Ritz itself. Based on true events, Mistress of the Ritz is a taut tale of suspense wrapped up in a love story for the ages, the inspiring story of a woman and a man who discover the best in each other amid the turbulence of war. Praise for Mistress of the Ritz “No one writes of the complexities of women’s lives and loves like Melanie Benjamin. In Mistress of the Ritz, Benjamin brings wartime Paris brilliantly to life. . . . Intense, illuminating, and ultimately inspiring!”—Elizabeth Letts, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Dorothy
Paris Was a Woman
Andrea Weiss
Author : Andrea Weiss
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781619021792
Paris Was a Woman by Andrea Weiss Pdf
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this "scrapbook" of their work—along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary—highlights the political, social, and artistic lives of the renowned lesbian and bisexual Modernists, including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, and many more. Painstakingly researched and profusely illustrated, it is an enlightening account of women who between wars found their selves and their voices in Paris. A wealth of photographs, paintings, drawings, and literary fragments combine with Weiss' revealing text to give an unparalleled insight into this extraordinary network of women for who Paris was neither mistress nor muse, but a different kind of woman.
The Mistress of Nothing
Kate Pullinger
Author : Kate Pullinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439195055
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When her mistress departs from Victorian London society to seek relief from tuberculosis symptoms in Egypt, maid Sally throws herself into their new culture and comes to know freedoms she has never experienced before she is harshly reminded of her humble station in life.
Mistress of the Revolution
Catherine Delors
Author : Catherine Delors
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525950540
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Forced to marry an elderly baron instead of a man she loves, impoverished noblewoman Gabrielle de Montserrat is condemned to death at the height of the French Revolution and finds her life placed in the hands of her former lover.
The Mistress
Danielle Steel
Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345531117
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Natasha, the innocent and loyal mistress of Russian oligarch Vladimir Stanislas, strikes up a friendship with gifted artist Theo Luca that opens her eyes to the freedoms she can never have with Vladimir.
Mistress To An Age: A Life Of Madame De Staël
J. Christopher Herold
Author : J. Christopher Herold
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259806
Mistress To An Age: A Life Of Madame De Staël by J. Christopher Herold Pdf
GERMAINE DE STAËL: Mistress to an Age. An aristocrat and daughter of great wealth, she assisted at the birth of the French Revolution; her days and nights a turmoil of political and amorous intrigue, she wrote novels at the breakfast table and pamphlets while she changed her clothes. Disciple of constancy and the grand passion, she carried on ardent, profound love affairs with four brilliant, demanding men at the same time—and satisfied and tortured them all. Genius, great heart, great lover, any man who knew Germaine was hers forever. “An unforgettable portrait of a many-sided woman...as remarkable, as biting as that legendary figure herself”—Saturday Review
Paris Was Our Misstres
Samuel Putnam
Author : Samuel Putnam
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1947-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0670539481
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Under Red Skies
Karoline Kan
Author : Karoline Kan
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316412032
Under Red Skies by Karoline Kan Pdf
A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they navigated their way in a country beset by poverty and often-violent political unrest. As the Kans move from quiet villages to crowded towns and through the urban streets of Beijing in search of a better way of life, they are forced to confront the past and break the chains of tradition, especially those forced on women. Raw and revealing, Karoline Kan offers gripping tales of her grandmother, who struggled to make a way for her family during the Great Famine; of her mother, who defied the One-Child Policy by giving birth to Karoline; of her cousin, a shoe factory worker scraping by on 6 yuan (88 cents) per hour; and of herself, as an ambitious millennial striving to find a job--and true love--during a time rife with bewildering social change. Under Red Skies is an engaging eyewitness account and Karoline's quest to understand the rapidly evolving, shifting sands of China. It is the first English-language memoir from a Chinese millennial to be published in America, and a fascinating portrait of an otherwise-hidden world, written from the perspective of those who live there.
Welcome to Sharonville
Sharon Zink
Author : Sharon Zink
Publisher : Unthank Cameo
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0957289790
Welcome to Sharonville by Sharon Zink Pdf
Engrossing work of character and psychologically driven literary fiction set in 'anywhere-ville' USA. The inhabitants of SHARONVILLE are forced to re-examine the truths they have lived by while a precious member of their community is lying in a coma.
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
Ariel Lawhon
Author : Ariel Lawhon
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345805966
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From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl mistress, willing to seize any chance to break out of the chorus line. As the twisted truth emerges, Ariel Lawhon’s wickedly entertaining debut mystery transports us into the smoky jazz clubs, the seedy backstage dressing rooms, and the shadowy streets beneath the Art Deco skyline. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!
Mistress of Modernism
Mary V. Dearborn
Author : Mary V. Dearborn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0618128069
Mistress of Modernism by Mary V. Dearborn Pdf
Dearborn's unprecedented access to Guggenheim's family, friends, and papers contributes rich insight to her traumatic childhood in New York, her self-education in the ways of art and artists, her battles with other art-collecting Guggenheims, and her legendary sexual appetites.