The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All Horowitz Sarah
The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All Horowitz Sarah An unforgettable portrait of a woman who became one of the most notorious figures of her day and whose…
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The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All Horowitz Sarah
An unforgettable portrait of a woman who became one of the most notorious figures of her day and whose scandalous story sheds fascinating light not only on her own tumultuous time but ours as well. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior, she knows her options are limited.Determined to fashion herself into a new woman, Meg orchestrates a scandalous plan with her most powerful resource: her body. -- Harold Schechter, author of Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Guinness, Butcher of MenSex, corruption, and power: the rise and fall of the Red Widow of ParisParis, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition.
Amid the dazzling glamor, art, and romance of bourgeois Paris, she takes elite men as her lovers, charming her
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