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Courtesans
Netherlands, fiction
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First loves
Italy, fiction
Fiction, romance, historical
Man-woman relationships, fiction
Fiction, historical, general
Social life and customs
Fiction
Amsterdam 1758, and a man is artfully seducing a woman. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt, a French government envoy selling shares to the Dutch; she is a courtesan, well-known in Amsterdam for the fact that she never removes her veil. He sets her a challenge: if she can f…
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