Category
page 1Courtesans from Paris

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)
Liane de Pougy
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)
Rosalie Duthé
French courtesan
Marion Delorme
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)
Cora Pearl
English courtesan who became famous in the Second French Empire
Marguerite Bellanger
French courtesan (1838-1886)
Berthe de Courrière
French artists' model (1852-1916)
Léonie Léon
French mistress of Léon Gambetta
Marthe de Florian
French courtesan