Anne-Marie Chassaigne, daughter of an army officer, was born in Brittany in 1869. She was educated in a convent and was married at the age of sixteen. Almost at once she ran away to Paris where her look of angelic refinement won her instant success. She changed her name to Liane de Pougy and became a courtesan, one of the great status symbols of the belle époque, so famous for her beauty and her pearls that she was almost a national monument.
Contains 8 b/w illustrations.