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Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon | Reading Level: very good
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned paint ...Show more
The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Valtesse de la Bigne
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamourous existence hid a ...Show more
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