The duchess

Description:

Thrown out of her ancestral home by her brutal half-brothers after the death of their father, Angélique Latham makes her way to Paris, where she takes in abused streetwalkers and transforms them into upper-crust courtesans in an exclusive bordello.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Aristocracy (Social class),  Brothels,  Orphans,  History,  Prostitution,  Fiction,  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-07-16,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, romance, historical,  Paris (france), fiction,  Fiction, romance, historical, general

Places: Paris,  Paris (France),  England,  France

Times: 19th century