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“Here’s her story, a tale of the bear-keeper’s daughter and the Empire: what happened to her and what happened because of her.”

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Book:The Eagle and the Swan

Source: The Eagle and the Swan

“The more I saw her, the more she enchanted me. She was exquisitely beautiful. Her slenderness was a charm. I was lost in contemplation. What was passing in my mind I should have some difficulty in explaining. I was full of indulgence for her life, full of admiration for her beauty. The proof of disinterestedness that she gave in not accepting a rich and fashionable young man, ready to waste all his money upon her, excused her in my eyes for all her faults in the past. There was a kind of candour in this woman. You could see she was still in the virginity of vice. Her firm walk, her supple figure, her rosy, open nostrils, her large eyes, slightly tinged with blue, indicated one of those ardent natures which shed around them a sort of voluptuous perfume, like Eastern vials, which, close them as tightly as you will, still let some of their perfume escape. Finally, whether it was simple nature or a breath of fever, there passed from time to time in the eyes of this woman a glimmer of desire, giving promise of a very heaven for one whom she should love. But those who had loved Marguerite were not to be counted, nor those whom she had loved.”

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Book:La dame aux camélias

Source: La dame aux camélias

“This is not where I was meant to be. Born to the wrong house, by a stroke of misfortune. The girls here have it all. Men in whorehouses exist only to serve. We are their guards, tailors, cooks and their musicians. Forever in the shadows. If only I could be a woman. With soft hands, big breasts and long hair. To have men fawn all over me, to see them rise and fall. Alas, but all I have is small feet.”

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Book:Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

Source: Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“There is a difference, Emilia, between being kept - like me - and being owned - like a wife. The difference is freedom. I do what I want and I go where I want, as long as I make myself available otherwise.”

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Book:By Any Other Name

Source: By Any Other Name

“I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.”

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Author:Cora Pearl

“Au XVIe siècle, en Italie, entre Rome et les collines dorées de Toscane, un nouveau monde est en train de naître, grâce à de grandes familles de souverains flamboyants. Ils savent s’entourer de vaillants militaires, d’artistes et d’écrivains de renom, mais aussi de femmes extravagantes et talentueuses. Pour leur rendre grâce, on invente un nouveau qualificatif les distinguant des vulgaires prostituées, ce seront des « courtisanes », cortigianae , des femmes ayant des manières les rendant dignes de figurer à la cour.”

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Book:La petite histoire des courtisanes: Elles ont touché le pouvoir. Mais qui sont-elles vraiment ?

Source: La petite histoire des courtisanes: Elles ont touché le pouvoir. Mais qui sont-elles vraiment ?

“I'm on the menu because I want to be.' My hands balled into fists. 'And I'm not even really on the menu. I'm like a barely chosen... appetiser.”

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Book:Fall of Ruin and Wrath

Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Could you really be expected to..." she paused, searching for the word. "Pleasure?" He offered, amiably. "Entertain. All three of them?" He began dealing the cards again. "Yes." "How?" He looked up at her, and offered her a wolfish grin. "Would you really like me to answer that?" Her eyes widened. "Uhm... no." He laughed then, a deep, rumbling laugh unlike anything she'd ever heard from him, and she was stunned by the way it transformed him. His face was immediately lighter, his eyes brighter, his frame more relaxed. She couldn't help but smile back at him, even as she admonished, "You're enjoying my discomfort." "Indeed I am, Empress." She blushed. "You shouldn't call me that." "Why not? You were named for an empress, were you not?" She closed her eyes and gave a mock shudder. "I prefer not to be reminded of the hideous name." "You should embrace it," he said, forthrightly. "You're one of the few women I've met who could live up to such a name." "You've said that before," she said. He turned a curious look on her. "I have?" She met his eyes and immediately regretted bringing up the decade-old memory, so insignificant to him- so very meaningful to her.”

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Book:Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”

“Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.”