Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the love story between Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Marg

Marguerite Gautier is the most beautiful, brazen—and expensive—courtesan in all of Paris. Despite being ill with consumption, she lives a glittering, moneye

This brilliant book portrays a love story between Marguerite Gautier, a courtesan who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young bourgeois by the name of Arman