Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
by Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Avil Publishing Company 1901
ISBN/ASIN: 140650680X
Number of pages: 842
Description:
In 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a youth who was wandering about the passages and greenroom with the air of a man in search of a woman kept at home by unexpected circumstances ...
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