The petticoat parade : Madam Monnier & the Roe Street brothels / Leigh Straw.

By: Straw, Leigh S. L [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 199 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760990558 (pbk.)Other title: Madam Monnier & the Roe Street brothels | Madam Monnier and the Roe Street brothelsSubject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 306.74/09941 Summary: 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.
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Bibliography: pages 189-199.

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.

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