Rachilde,Melanie C. Hawthorne
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
Cultural,France,Fiction,Classics,Romance,Literature,19th Century,Literature,LGBT,European Literature,French Literature,GLBT,Queer,Novels
Monsieur VÃ©nus: A Materialist Novel