TY  - BOOK
AU  - Straw,Leigh S.L.
TI  - The petticoat parade: Madam Monnier & the Roe Street brothels 
SN  - 9781760990558 (pbk.)
U1  - 306.74/09941 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Fremantle, WA
PB  - Fremantle Press
KW  - De Bray, Josie.
KW  - Brothels
KW  - Perth (W.A.)
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Crime
KW  - Procuresses
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Perth
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Bibliography: pages 189-199
N2  - 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
ER  -