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| #1309126 in Books | imusti | 2014-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Chicago Review Press||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Fascinating book that Works on Many Levels|By R. Suarez|Alina Garcia-Lapuerta's biography on Maria de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, la Condesa de Merlin, reads like an engrossing novel and perhaps that is its best asset. For although the book is meticulously researched as the 31 pages of notes and 10 pages of bibliography evidence, it never becomes a dense or dull, sc||“García-Lapuerta captures the reader’s imagination with vivid details of Mercedes’s life in Cuba, Madrid, and Paris. García-Lapuerta’s beautifully written account of La Belle Créole illuminates lesser-known aspects
Known for her beauty and angelic voice, Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, la Belle Créole, was a Cuban-born star of nineteenth-century Parisian society. She befriended aristocrats and artists alike, including Balzac, Baron de Rothschild, Rossini, and the opera diva La Malibran.
A daughter of the creole aristocracy, Mercedes led a tumultuous life, leaving her native Havana as a teenager to join her mother in the heart of Madrid’s elite society. As ...
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