Yvette

"That girl Yvette, she is a mystery. Is she a charming youngster or a wretched jade?" Yvette belongs through her high-class prostitute mother, her birth, her education, her inheritance, her manners, and her customs, to the vortex of the most rapid life of 19th-century Paris. She lives in that atmosphere of infamy with a calm and triumphing ease which is either wonderfully profligate or entirely artless. She allures and excites men and at the same time acts like an impeccable virgin. If she ...