Table of Contents

  1 Arrival

  2 Great Dames

  3 Place des Vosges

  4 The Academy

  5 Le Grand Véfour

  6 Courtesans

  7 Salons

  8 The Left Bank

  9 The Language of Love

10 Dressed by Dior

11 Place Vendôme

12 On Grown-Up Women

13 But Women Are Politics …

14 A Good Death

15 Au Revoir

Further Reading

Acknowledgements