The Mistress of Paris

'Through incisive enquiry and astute observation, Catherine Hewitt traces the courtesan's flight from squalor to splendour, her prose sparkling in the light of her luminous subject.' The Biographer's Club prize A brilliant biography in the vein of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning The Pike§§Full of the colour and verve of 19th-century Paris§§Already the recipient of a Biographer's Club Prize and a Society of Authors grant