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The French Consul's Wife - Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The French Consul's Wife - Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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This memoir of Celeste de Chabrillan, former Parisian courtesan,
circus performer, dancer, and wife of the French consul, offers a
firsthand account of the years she spent in gold rush Victoria
during the middle of the 19th century. De Chabrillan recounts
stories of her childhood in the village of St. Kilda, her time
spent in the Ballarat gold field, and her attendance of a public
hanging and Governor Hotham's "beer ball." The publication of this
memoir, which includes descriptions of her illegitimate birth,
miserable adolescence, and celebrity career as a bareback rider and
polka dancer, resulted in de Chabrillan's ostracism from Melbourne
society and her being nicknamed the consul's "harlot spouse."
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