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 Côte-aux-Fées La Côte-aux-Fées La Côte-aux-Fées is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. La Côte-aux-Fées is first mentioned in 1337 as "La Costa des Faies". La Côte-aux-Fées has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 41.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. Out of the