The
petticoat parade
Madam Monnier & the Roe Street brothels
Madam Monnier & the Roe Street brothels
Madam Monnier and the Roe Street brothels
Straw, Leigh S. L.
creator
author.
text
bibliography
biography
Biographies.
wea
2021
2021
monographic
eng
199 pages ; 24 cm.
The Petticoat Parade is a true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray's life. Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldier tried to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917 and her 'bungalow' was at the centre of underworld violence in the 1920s. She returned to France before WWII to visit family and was bombed repeatedly out of homes there and captured by the Germans. She was a prisoner of war and one story has her in a concentration camp. She survived, returned to Perth in 1947 and took up business again in Roe Street, having made a fortune from the rent collected from her brothels while she was a prisoner of war, up until her death in 1953.
adult
Leigh Straw.
Bibliography: pages 189-199.
De Bray, Josie
Brothels
Perth (W.A.)
Prostitution
Perth (W.A.)
Crime
Perth (W.A.)
Procuresses
Western Australia
Perth
Brothels
Western Australia
Perth
Prostitution
Western Australia
Perth
Perth (W.A.)
Social conditions
20th century
306.74/09941
9781760990558 (pbk.)
VMOR
210902
20230830093346.0
wb9334927
eng