Volume 39, Number 13 · July 16, 1992
Splendor and Miseries
By Francine du Plessix Gray
Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan
Harvard University Press, 478 pp., $39.50
La Vie quotidienne dans les maisons closes, 1830–1930
by Laure Adler
Hachette, 260 pp., FF118
Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France
by Charles Bernheimer
Harvard University Press, 329 pp., $29.95
Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era
by Hollis Clayson
Yale University Press, 202 pp., $45.00
'I love prostitution in and for itself…' Gustave Flaubert wrote in 1853 to his mistress, Louise Colet.
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