The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
By: Aaron Freundschuh
3.52
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs…
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14. Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (German and European Studies)
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