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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... 282 A PARISIAN SALOON UNDER THE EMPIRE. Nothing could be more incongruous than the society of Paris under the empire; for while a few great ladies, such as the Princesse de Vaudemont and the Marquise de Montesson, Madame de Genlis and Madame du Defiant, (the illustrious but impoverished friend of the President Henault and Horace Walpole) the Duchesses de Luynes, de Montmorency, de Brissac, &c, &c, received in their salons all the national and foreign celebrities who chanced to be domiciliated in the capital, there were other women of high rank who were much less scrupulous as regarded the characters and antecedents of their admitted guests. Among these the most prominent was the Comtesse de Livry, who, in point of fact, was a salaried agent of one of the public hells. In her splendidly-decorated rooms, scores of wretched dupes were taught to curse the hour when they had first, inexperienced young men, misled by the empty sound of a noble name, believed themselves welcomed to the best society, and had allowed their vanity to prove too strong for their reason. Eager to emulate the ostentatious recklessness of wealthier votaries at this shrine of vice than themselves, they flung upon the fatal green cloth almost the whole of their fortunes, in order to dazzle for a few brief moments the eyes of some beautiful but frail woman who was unworthy of the sacrifice; and the result was their own ruin. Nor was their danger lessened by the fact that, among the habitues of Madame de Livry, were many men of birth and station, who went to her house with much the same feeling that they would have gone behind the scenes of an opera, or into a school of anatomy. To these the passions of the young and the unwary were merely a study--it was a singular page of human nature whi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235639937
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235639932
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr

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