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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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World HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Prologue. âGirls from Franceâ
- 1. The Woman from Saint-Nazaire: Marie gets her starting money
- 2. âIdle womenâ: Before Roe Street
- 3. Across the Tracks: The madams move in and the police take note
- 4. The âScarlet Sisterhoodâ: Sex, booze and war
- 5. âIâll settle you some dayâ: The shooting of Josie de Bray
- 6. â âAuntie McKenzieâ Sent for Trialâ: The Women Police take on Roe Street
- 7. âFifty-fiftyâ: Inside the brothels
- 8. âCleanse the streetâ: Roe Street under threat
- 9. Giving Evidence: The 1938 Inquiry
- 10. âI only went in for some water!â: Private detectives on Roe Street
- 11. âThey all said I was a top bossâ: Madam Joan St Louis
- 12. Josie and the Germans: Madam Monnier vanishes abroad
- 13. The End of an Era: Closing the brothels
- Authorâs Note and Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Copyright