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Mademoiselle Victorine
Debra Finerman
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Crown
, 2007-07-24
主題
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / Women
ISBN
0307394298
9780307394293
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8uvU26P4FCAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
When Victorine Laurent joins the chorus of the grand Paris Opera ballet, she expects to become the mistress of a wealthy man; this is how young women without family survive in the decadent City of Light. Yet when the artist Degas introduces her to Edouard Manet, her life changes dramatically. She agrees to pose for him, and the result is a painting that shocks Paris. Overnight, Victorine becomes the city’s most sought after courtesan.
When she becomes the favorite of the Duke de Lyon, the power behind the shaky government of Emperor Louis-Napoléon, her continued attraction to Manet becomes dangerous for them both. And when an astonishing secret from Victorine’s past comes to light, her carefully constructed world may come crashing down around her.
Mademoiselle Victorine
transports readers back to nineteenth-century Paris, a time when art, love, and commerce blended seamlessly together.