Fin de siecle Paris: the world of Verlaine and Zola, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec; a time of anarchists, scientists, and occultists, when can-can skirts were raised at the Moulin Rouge and fortunes were lost on the Panama Canal.
Alone in the great metropolis, D.
When his widow Odette disappears into his tomb in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery and never returns, her maid Denise fears the worst.
Armand de Valois was one of these latter unfortunates, stricken by yellow fever at the site of his ruin.
Fin de siecle Paris: the world of Verlaine and Zola, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec; a time of anarchists, scientists, and occultists, when can-can skirts were raised at the Moulin Rouge and fortunes were lost on the Panama Canal