Demimonde whom Captain Rawdon Crawley lusts after in his younger days. Becky Sharp is perceived as a demimondaine before she is presented at court, and then becomes one when she travels through Europe after her husband abandons her. Possibly the most famous portrayal of the demimonde, albeit from before the word was coined, is in Verdi's opera "La traviata" (1853). The opera, in turn, was inspired by Alexandre Dumas the younger's "La Dame aux Camélias;" Marguerite Gautier, the heroine of the book and subsequent play, was based on Marie Duplessis, 1840s Paris courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent men,
La frousse aux trousses Spirou and Fantasio are carried away by a torrent of water, leaving the patients cured of their hiccups, but undeniably depressed. La frousse aux trousses La frousse aux trousses, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the fortieth album of the "Spirou et Fantasio" series, and the eighth of the authors. The story was originally serialised in "Spirou" magazine under the title "Angoisse à Touboutt–Chan", before released in a hardcover album under the altered title later in 1987. In "La frousse aux trousses", Spirou and Fantasio intend to make a journey to Touboutt-Chan in order to clarify the fate