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 Cage aux Folles II La Cage aux Folles II La Cage aux Folles II is a 1980 French comedy film and the sequel to 1979's "La Cage aux Folles". It is directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Michel Serrault as Albin, (stage name "ZaZa"), the female impersonator star of a gay night-club revue, and Ugo Tognazzi as Renato, his partner of over twenty years. A spy plants a capsule of microfilm on Albin and from then on spies and government agents pursue him. Albin and Renato travel to Italy to hide at Renato's mother's farm. At each point along the way we see the