Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals

Cornelia Otis Skinner

262 pages first pub 1962 (view editions)

nonfiction historical history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
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The 1890s in Paris were a decade of elegance and perception, a heady mixture of high intellect and frivolous vivacity. Never has there been a period when "ladies" so commanded society, from a position so frequently horizontal - or when wit, so soo...

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