Erotic exchanges : the world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris / Nina Kushner.

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2013.

xi, 295 pages ; 24 cm

The police and the demimonde -- Leaving home -- Being sold into the demimonde -- Madams and their networks -- Contracts and elite prostitution as work -- Male experiences of galanterie -- Sexual capital and the private lives of mistresses.

Includes bibliographical references and index.