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Thank you We sneak Veronica franco the court assan honest

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Alas shmoop so it meant that she was kind of

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the official companion I see a bunch of very upper

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class men There were two types of cortisone So one

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was a cortisone asta who is the very well educated

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woman would consort with very high class men on it

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was it was understood that they had to be educated

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in order to be attractive A very contemporary idea what

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it means to be attractive Yeah And then there were

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the other types of course is who are the ones

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that would just be like hawking their wares under the

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bridge That kind of situation and her mother was also

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a cortisone In fact shall we still have some of

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the books where these quoted in vanessa's these high class

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courtesans would be listed and her mother is listed as

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the person to pay the fee too So it's a

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family business it's a family business her mom's pimping her

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out But her mom also did her time of the

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day So she grew up with this mother who was

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in a way super independent very educated and became a

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skater herself So also i think it's important to mention

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that franco franco's writing itself was very autobiographical very personal

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which wasn't necessarily what was expected in the day Right

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We think about things being written in the third person

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or about abstract concepts She wasn't interested in that She

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was interested in this kind of confessional mode that we

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often associate with poets What did the two categories of

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cortisone How did franco become accord Assan What was unique

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about franco's writing style You'll get her heart someday Shmoop

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