The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Céleste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia by Jeanne Clancy, Patricia Clancy

The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Céleste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia

Jeanne Clancy, Patricia Clancy

284 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider, and polka dancer, Céleste de Chabrillan scandalized Melbourne when she arrived in 1854. Her vivid account of years spent in diplomatic circles and on the goldfields reveals her great energy and will.

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