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Sonja Boon
Life of Madame Necker [PDF ebook]
Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon

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Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781317323686 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4432269 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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