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Nana

In the pleasure-loving Paris of the late Second Empire, a music-hall actress turned courtesan rises from the boulevard theatres to a mansion of her own, ruining a string of wealthy men on her way.

Nana

Théâtre des Variétés, Passage des Panoramas

Chapter 1

At the Théâtre des Variétés, the unknown Nana walks on as Venus and, though she can barely act or sing, conquers the whole house with her body alone. The boulevard theatre and the shabby-glamorous Passage des Panoramas beside it are the launch pad of her career. From this stage her power over the men of Paris begins.

Chapter 1

explicit The novel opens at the Théâtre des Variétés on the Boulevard Montmartre, beside the Passage des Panoramas, where Nana makes her sensational stage debut. The theatre is real and named; the pin marks it.

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