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A chronicle of one woman's life in nineteenth century England and France, this book makes a very entertaining read and period piece with its background of life in both countries, especially with its glimpses of Parisian society during the turbulent times around the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. Nobody could pretend that Yolande Stephens led the most virtuous or indeed useful of lives, but as a window on the existence of one woman who seemed to have led an extraordinarily charmed life after an unpromising start to her days, one cannot help feeling that maybe she deserved many of the good things that came to her, even if the price was in part the happiness of someone else's wife.

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