Translated chapters from La Femme pauvre au dix-neuvième siècle, with a preface by Josephine Butler, the British campaigner against the Contagious Diseases Acts. Daubié describes how the French police system of regulated prostitution worked, the panders and courtesans it protected, the fate of penitent girls, the laws for repression, and the corruption of men it encouraged.
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