The Book of the Courtesans, Part 3: Caroline Hassé
In the archives of the Paris police there is a leather-bound volume known as The Book of the Courtesans, containing the criminal files of a group of women called Les Insoumis— The Rebels. These are their stories.
“In the purple days of poor Cora Pearl, of Caroline Hassé...the legendary fetes of the Regency were thrown into the shade by the Babylonian …
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