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Search - My Blue Notebooks :The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan
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Book Description:
The life of Liane de Pougy was like the plot of an X-rated fairy tale: a celebrated courtesan of the belle epoque, she danced at the Folies-Bergere and in St. Petersburg married a Romanian prince, had erotic entanglements with important bohemians and capped it all off by becoming a nun. She also kept a journal from 1919 to 1941, My Blue Notebooks, in which she candidly recorded her stormy friendships (particularly with poet Max Jacobs), her affairs (particularly with Nathalie Barney) and other adventures in inter-war Paris. Translated from the French and edited by Diana Athill in 1979, the book is now back in print for the first time in years. -- Publishers Weekly
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This is a mimoir of a french courtesan written between 1919 and 1941. She had many adventures and met many interesting people then turned to God in the end. Marcel Proust was her acquaintance, Colette, Mac Jacob. There are graphic pieces of her sexual liaisons with both men and women. French culture and the society of the first half of the twentieth century is something that will be explored in this journal which is being passed off as the first step towards saint hood by the woman's confesser. I dunno if she'll make sainthood but she does make an interesting read. I love the describtions of dresses and foods of the different times.
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Written between 1919 and 1941;. dePougy's memoir serves up a voyeristic feast of high society living. A bit had to get in to for me in places but over all, I enjoyed it.