The Rush for the Spoil (La Cureé) A Realistic Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Rush for the Spoil (La Cure ): A Realistic Novel The book is Paris - Paris as she feasted and flattered under the Second Empire - a Paris of adventurers, of courtezans - a Paris of debts - a Paris of women's shoulders, cotillons, champagne, of violins and pianos a Paris of opera hats - a Paris of gold pieces, of fraud, of liars, of speculation, of supper tables - a Paris sonorous and empty as a wheel of fortune - +a Paris of sweetmeats, rendezvous, bank-notes - a Paris of tresses of false hair forgotten in hackney carriages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.