Mademoiselle Victorine : A Novel

A beautiful dancer in the Paris Opera ballet, Victorine Laurent uses her position as a muse and model for avant-garde painter Edouard Manet as a stepping stone to the highest levels of French society and to become the most sought-after courtesan in Paris, a position that earns her the enmity of the Empress Eugňie. Reader's Guide included. Original. 40,000 first printing.