Cherie Author:Colette From the back of the book: This small masterpiece, set in a sandalwood-scented world of luxuriously kept women, is the love story of Cherie, a handsome young gigolo, and the beautiful, but much older Lea. . . . "Cherie is a penetrating and brilliant description of French courtesan life in the pre-war world of the 1910's, an ironic and sympathe... more »tic Continental tale."« less