Posted on 03/19/2018 5:48:54 AM PDT by C19fan
With clients that included princes, artists and a future King of England, these are the women who ruled Paris from their bed.
Fascinating pictures reveal the prostitutes who featured in 'The Pretty Women of Paris' - the nineteenth century directory for the French capital's best courtesans and brothels.
Published in 1883 and limited to 169 copies, the notorious guide listed the names of the city's most famous scarlet women - along with their addresses, qualities and faults.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
None anorexic.
Mom, meet Alice, we’re in love, she’s a hooker.
A nice mix of guilty and not-guilty.
I more civilized time clean, abundant, affordable prostitution was readily available in the west. Now we live in era of rapist serial killers who may have at one time had a viable socially acceptable sexual outlet.
I don’t think there is one of those gals who would end up getting a ride home from a singles bar today. Arf, arf.
Yeah! Let’s see what’s under those four layers of hosiery and two layers of dress material!
Fugly, if that is the best of the bunch, woe is them.
"...a viable socially acceptable sexual outlet" - You mean like "Jack the Ripper" had?
There is one in there (second row of pics on the left) who bears a striking resemblance to Catherine Zeta Jones.
One of My favorite movies.
Barney Fife would have been happy with any of them, especially Alice Loady.
I am happy to see that none of my ancestral names are in that portfolio. ;)
One of them looks a lot like Susan Sarandon.
Food is good in France, the girls are so so.
Food in Italy is so so and the girls are Ooo la la!
Well, I was raised in a sophisticated kind of style
Yeah, my taste in music and women drove my folks half wild
Mom and dad had a plan for me, it was debutantes and symphonies
But I like my music and I like my women wild.
Yeah, and I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed.
Too much lipstick and, ah, too much rouge
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused
And I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
You should have seen the looks on the faces of my dad and mom
When I showed up at the door with my date for the senior prom
They said, "Well, pardon us, son, she ain't no kid!
That's a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Pardon wig!"
I said, "I know it, Dad. Ain't she cool! That's the kind I dig!"
I like 'em sweet, I like 'em with a heart of gold
Yeah, and I like 'em brassy, I like 'em brazen and bold
Well, they say that opposites attract, well I don't agree
I want a woman just as tacky as me
Yeah, I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Yeah, and I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed.
Too much lipstick and, ah, too much rouge
Gets me excited, leaves me feeling confused
And I like my women just a little on the trashy side.
Confederate Railroad, "Trashy Women"
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