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La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris (in English)
Alina García-Lapuerta
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Chicago Review Press
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La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris (in English) - García-Lapuerta, Alina
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Synopsis "La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris (in English)"
2015 Internation Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention for Best Biography in English 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 Mercedes epitomized an unusually modern life, straddling cultures and celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. Her memoirs, travel writings, and very personal correspondence serve as the basis for this first-ever English-language biography of the passionate and adventuresome Belle Créole.
