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Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522850666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'What a subject for a film, but not, please, Meryl Streep ... Together with Dr Patricia Clancy (Melbourne University) and Jeanne Allen's (La Trobe University) elegant translation and able notes, the memoirs make for a piquant, informative, variegated and often startling read ... Miegunyah Press you've done it again.' (Derek Whitelock, Weekend Australian) A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, C leste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne society when she arrived in 1854 as the wife of the French Consul. These memoirs give a vivid firsthand account of the two-and-a-half years she spent in gold-rush Victoria. C leste's arrival in Melbourne was preceded by the publication of her memoirs describing her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence and celebrity career as a courtesan, bareback rider and polka dancer. As a result she was dubbed the consul's 'harlot spouse' and ostracised by society. Despite this, C leste did not avoid the public gaze and continued to employ her literary talents. Her memoirs are of a life spent in the village of St Kilda, the diplomatic and government house circle and the Ballarat gold fields. Her descriptions of a public hanging, Governor Hotham's 'beer ball' and her own Ball for the Victims of Crimea reveal her as a woman of great energy and wilful temperament.
The French Consul's Wife
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Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522850666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'What a subject for a film, but not, please, Meryl Streep ... Together with Dr Patricia Clancy (Melbourne University) and Jeanne Allen's (La Trobe University) elegant translation and able notes, the memoirs make for a piquant, informative, variegated and often startling read ... Miegunyah Press you've done it again.' (Derek Whitelock, Weekend Australian) A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, C leste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne society when she arrived in 1854 as the wife of the French Consul. These memoirs give a vivid firsthand account of the two-and-a-half years she spent in gold-rush Victoria. C leste's arrival in Melbourne was preceded by the publication of her memoirs describing her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence and celebrity career as a courtesan, bareback rider and polka dancer. As a result she was dubbed the consul's 'harlot spouse' and ostracised by society. Despite this, C leste did not avoid the public gaze and continued to employ her literary talents. Her memoirs are of a life spent in the village of St Kilda, the diplomatic and government house circle and the Ballarat gold fields. Her descriptions of a public hanging, Governor Hotham's 'beer ball' and her own Ball for the Victims of Crimea reveal her as a woman of great energy and wilful temperament.
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522850666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
'What a subject for a film, but not, please, Meryl Streep ... Together with Dr Patricia Clancy (Melbourne University) and Jeanne Allen's (La Trobe University) elegant translation and able notes, the memoirs make for a piquant, informative, variegated and often startling read ... Miegunyah Press you've done it again.' (Derek Whitelock, Weekend Australian) A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, C leste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne society when she arrived in 1854 as the wife of the French Consul. These memoirs give a vivid firsthand account of the two-and-a-half years she spent in gold-rush Victoria. C leste's arrival in Melbourne was preceded by the publication of her memoirs describing her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence and celebrity career as a courtesan, bareback rider and polka dancer. As a result she was dubbed the consul's 'harlot spouse' and ostracised by society. Despite this, C leste did not avoid the public gaze and continued to employ her literary talents. Her memoirs are of a life spent in the village of St Kilda, the diplomatic and government house circle and the Ballarat gold fields. Her descriptions of a public hanging, Governor Hotham's 'beer ball' and her own Ball for the Victims of Crimea reveal her as a woman of great energy and wilful temperament.
Courtesan and Countess
Author: comtesse Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522868838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Text in English; unpublished memoirs originally written in French.
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522868838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Text in English; unpublished memoirs originally written in French.
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French
Author: Herbert Alfred Birks
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Saturday Magazine
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
How the French took Algiers; or, The janissary's slave, tr. from the Germ. of W.O. von Horn by J. Latchmore
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm P. Oertel
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Littell's Living Age
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Commercial Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls in China, 1870
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Consuls in the Cold War
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004544194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
No studies currently exist on consuls and consulates (often dismissed as lowly figures in the diplomatic process) in the Cold War. Research into the work of these overlooked 'poor relations' offers the chance of new perspectives in the field of Cold War studies, exploring their role in representing their country’s interests in far flung and unexpected places and their support for particular communities of fellow nationals and itinerant travellers in difficulties. These unnoticed actors on the international stage played far more complicated roles than one generally imagines. . Contributors are: Tina Tamman, David Schriffl, Ariane Knuesel , Lori Maguire, Laurent Cesari, Sue Onslow, Pedro Aires Oliveira, David Lee, and Marek Hańderek.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004544194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
No studies currently exist on consuls and consulates (often dismissed as lowly figures in the diplomatic process) in the Cold War. Research into the work of these overlooked 'poor relations' offers the chance of new perspectives in the field of Cold War studies, exploring their role in representing their country’s interests in far flung and unexpected places and their support for particular communities of fellow nationals and itinerant travellers in difficulties. These unnoticed actors on the international stage played far more complicated roles than one generally imagines. . Contributors are: Tina Tamman, David Schriffl, Ariane Knuesel , Lori Maguire, Laurent Cesari, Sue Onslow, Pedro Aires Oliveira, David Lee, and Marek Hańderek.
Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce, Manufactures, Etc., of Their Consular Districts
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Christian Register and Boston Observer...
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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ISBN:
Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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