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Monsieur Venus (Paperback)
Rachilde; Edited by Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
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R696
Discovery Miles 6 960
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes
enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial
flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and
eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former
hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that
ensue. A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the
early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity
with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the
Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a
Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in
prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new
vice.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Monsieur Venus: Roman Materialiste Rachilde, Francis Talman
Brancart, 1885 Literary Criticism; European; French; Literary
Criticism / European / French
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