Category

Courtesans from Paris

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Ninon de Lenclos

French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts (1620-1705)

Madame du Barry

French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)

French courtesan, dancer and novelist, editor

Claudine Guérin de Tencin

French writer and salonist

Marie-Louise O'Murphy

mistress (1737-1814)

Marie Duplessis

19th-century French courtesan

Marie-Madeleine Guimard

French ballerina

Apollonie Sabatier

French model (1822–1890)

Valtesse de la Bigne

French stage actor and writer (1848–1910)

French courtesan

17th-century French courtesan

Céleste Mogador

French dancer, playwright and novelist (1824-1909)

Émilienne d’Alençon

French dancer, actress and courtesan (1870–1945)

Blanche d'Antigny

French actress and singer, literary model (1840–1874)

English courtesan who became famous in the Second French Empire

Marguerite Bellanger

French courtesan (1838-1886)

Berthe de Courrière

French artists' model (1852-1916)

French mistress of Léon Gambetta

Marthe de Florian

French courtesan