Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Hottentot Venus

Barbara Chase-Riboud

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical informative inspiring slow-paced
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It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry's ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and porno...

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