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Updated: June 11, 2025
Can you imagine what my kind colleagues say about me? That I've gotten along as a woman of the demimonde rather than as an artist that I'm a cocotte, using my voice and the stage for soliciting, as it were." "Damn the liars!" cried Rafael hotly. "I'd like to have someone say that in my hearing." "Bah! Don't be a child. Liars, yes, but what they say has a grain of truth in it.
Those were the days when the Due de Morny, half if not full brother of the Emperor, ruled as king of the Bourse, and Cora Pearl, a clever and not at all good-looking Irish girl gone wrong, reigned as Queen of the Demimonde. All this went by the board years ago. Everywhere, more or less, electricity has obliterated distinctions of rank and wealth. It has circumvented lovers and annihilated romance.
She had come for the finishing touches of rejuvenation to get her hair redone and to go through her biennial agony of having Auguste, beauty specialist to the royalty, nobility and fashion, and demimonde, of three continents, burn off her outer skin that nature might replace it with one new and fresh and unwrinkled.
He had a superb practice among the gay world, and being very merry by nature and ready to laugh and joke in the friendliest way with the demimonde ladies with whom, however, he never went farther, he charged very high fees and got them paid with the greatest punctuality.
Here, they are brazenly advertised as "afternoon teas" to lure the unwary. In my travels I have visited many of the most prominently advertised places of this kind in different parts of the country to study the habitues. It can not be denied that most of these dives are the rendezvous of the demimonde, breeding places of vice, crime and degeneracy, and an ally of the white slave traffic.
'That woman is notorious: she is one of the demimonde! 'Well, I said, 'I don't suppose she is in society. And then Lilian said, 'Good gracious, Ideala! how can you be so tranquil? You must care. I think you are the most extraordinary person I ever met. And I told her that the only extraordinary thing about me just then was a great 'exposition of sleep' that had come upon me.
He was your landed proprietor, who owned some of the choicest parts of the city and its growing suburbs, and whose plantations lined both banks of the Mississippi within easy reach from the city. At the opposite end of the social scale were the quadroons the demimonde of this little capital and the negro slaves.
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