Monsieur Venus
By Rachilde, Melanie Hawthorne & Liz Constable
- Release Date: 2015-05-01
- Genre: Literary Fiction
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue