The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia
Author(s): Patricia Clancy
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A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the Frenc Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house circles and on the goldfields reveal her as a woman of great energyt and will.
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Dr Patricia Clancy was for many years a senior lecturer in the French Department of the University of Melbourne. She is a winner of the Victorian Premier's Award for Literary Translation. Jeanne Allen taught French at La Trobe and Melbourne universities and has published on the French in colonial Australia.
General Fields
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- : Melbourne University Publishing
- : Melbourne University Press
- : 0.516
- : April 1999
- : 237mm X 155mm X 23mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Patricia Clancy
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 792.028092
- : 336
- : Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military; Australasian & Pacific history: c 1750 to c 1900; World history: c 1750 to c 1900
- : illustrations, portraits