# Hottentot Venus

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- Book: [Hottentot Venus](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-chase-riboud/hottentot-venus) ([Hottentot Venus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-chase-riboud/hottentot-venus.md))
- Authors: [Barbara Chase-Riboud](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-chase-riboud)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-208-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2004-11-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom....