The Making of a "Fallen Angel"

From the period of the July Monarchy to the Third Republic, the young female ballet dancer was depicted in the press as a wayward, shallow, greedy, little Nana in the making, destined to a life of prostitution once her dream of becoming an étoile of the Paris Opéra Ballet was extinguished. Journalis...

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