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    Émilie-Louise Delabigne, known as countess Valtesse de La Bigne (1848, in Paris – 29 July 1910, in Ville-d'Avray) was a French courtesan and demi-mondaine...
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    opium. She began her career as a courtesan with Valtesse de la Bigne, who taught Anne-Marie the profession. De Pougy felt she was capable but not overly cerebral...
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    D. à la police". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2019. Salmon, Ludivine (5 August 2010). "Zahia: la vraie histoire d'une gamine de banlieue"...
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    Andrée Lafayette (category Actresses from Île-de-France)
    Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne. Lafayette was born in 1903 to Julia Pâquerette Fossey and Paul Jules...
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    Gervex was one of many lovers entertained by the famous courtesan Valtesse de La Bigne. Their relationship was long and deep, with Gervex including the...
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    Prostitution in France (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    savoir : à L'Abreuvoir de Mascon (à l'angle du pont Saint-Michel et de la rue de la Huchette), en La Boucherie (voisine de la rue de la Huchette), rue Froidmentel...
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    Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, upon which Zola drew in developing the character of his title character. Yet it was Valtesse de la Bigne, painted...
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    Europe's richest men, Lachmann maintained a noted literary salon out of Hôtel de la Païva, her luxurious mansion at 25 avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Completed...
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  • Jamila M'Barek (category People from Lens, Pas-de-Calais)
    husband. Born circa 1961, she was one of seven children born in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, to immigrant parents, a Tunisian mother and a Moroccan father...
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  • Brothels in Paris (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Boulevard de la Chapelle. Located at 164 Boulevard de la Villette. Located at 214 Boulevard de la Villette. Located at 226 Boulevard de la Villette. 11th...
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    Marguerite Steinheil (category People from the Territoire de Belfort)
    replied "no, she left through the back door". "La tragédie del'Impasse Ronsin : Mme Steinheil au seuil de la Cour d'Assises". Le Petit Parisien. 1 November...
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    that of Madame de Saint-Marceaux at No. 100. The famous courtesan Valtesse de la Bigne lived in a mansion built for her by the Prince de Sagan at 98, Boulevard...
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    he was exiled from France after a duel. When Ninon's mother, Marie Barbe de la Marche, died ten years later, the unmarried Ninon entered a convent, only...
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    1814), also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy, La Belle Morphise, Louise Morfi or Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly, was the youngest lesser mistress...
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    Théroigne de Méricourt,Une femme mélancolique sous la Révolution, Préface d'Elisabeth Badinter, Albin Michel, Mars 2010. Works by Théroigne de Méricourt...
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    years, Alibert led a nomadic life until she met Mme Denant, who ran a Maison de Rendezvous, a brothel catering to a high society clientele. Under the tutelage...
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    Catherine GERARD dite la (1748-1830). Last accessed April 2012. Olivier Blanc, Portraits de femmes, artistes et modèles au temps de Marie-Antoinette, Paris...
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  • largely profited from the king's income from the colony, she became known as La reine du Congo ("The Queen of the Congo"). She and Leopold married in a religious...
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  • Prostitution in Paris (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    first love, Berthe. The novelist also included elements of Valtesse de La Bigne and Delphine de Lizy. In Quiet Days in Clichy, the writer Henry Miller recounts...
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    Le Chabanais (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Telegraph. Retrieved 15 November 2020. Véronique Willemin, La Mondaine, histoire et archives de la Police des Mœurs, hoëbeke, 2009, p. 102. Survey results...
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    savoir : à L'Abreuvoir de Mascon (à l'angle du pont Saint-Michel et de la rue de la Huchette), en La Boucherie (voisine de la rue de la Huchette), rue Froidmentel...
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  • Prostitution in Overseas France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    newspapers such as "Clicanoo" (Journal de l'île de La Réunion) and the internet. Some students at the University of La Réunion use prostitution to fund their...
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    Ville-d'Avray (category Communes of Hauts-de-Seine)
    Académie de Saintonge, Pierre-Henri Simon lived in Ville d'Avray and is buried there.[citation needed] Famous 19th century courtesan Valtesse de La Bigne had...
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    ISBN 9781412834926. Buisson, Patrick (2009). 1940-1945 Années érotiques -: De la Grande Prostituée à la revanche des mâles (in French). Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226200143...
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    with the Prince of Soubise. According to Edmond de Goncourt, when d'Alembert was asked why dancers like La Guimard made such prodigious fortunes, when singers...
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    Collard, Claude (2019). "La famille Simons, de la berline du Premier Consul dite « de Bruxelles » à Mademoiselle Lange". Napoleonica. La Revue (in French) (33)...
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    In March 1917, she met the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita at the Café de la Rotonde in Montparnasse, who fell madly in love with her and married her...
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    Journal. editeur (23 July 2014). "Le soldat et la putain". Association nationale des croix de guerre et de la valeur militaire (in French). Archived from...
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    source] "Mary Lunn". roglo.eu.[unreliable source] "La véritable découverte de l'appartement de Marthe de Florian by Marc Ottavi" (PDF) – via michellegable...
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  • Michel Lafon (1994): history of Madame Claude by Madame Claude. Les filles de Madame Claude, by Elizabeth Antébi and Anne Florentin, Stock-Julliard (1974)...
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