The Nameless Woman: The Story of Jeanne & Baudelaire(2021)
The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknown, who was the muse and companion of the mythical French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).
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