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 ...
The over the hill lesbian is way high on the fugly scale.
Well...Cora Pearl might do in a pinch.
Bkmrk
Yea, she’s a 10 at 2.
Bears a strange resemblance to Renee Russo. So, you’d need a tetanus shot just to be safe.
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Those poor women.
Imagine what they went through to end up like that.
And their poor children.
Doomed and miserable.
The Happy Hooker is a myth. These women were probably abused most of their short lives.
Yeah, the pecksniffs alluding to ugly women pictured are fooling nobody.
Prostitution in France remained legal until 6th April 2016
Lol
Cat ladies gonna get you...
You are a strange fellow.
Now there is porn everywhere, so rape is down.
Serial murders have also declined.
More hygienic too, probably.
And was prostitution really so "socially acceptable" in the 19th century?
One made 3 million bucks
I d known some whores in my time....fancy ones
Its not all human trafficking or whatever
Its a way up or out for beautiful women in nations like Brazil or Colombia
Ive seen it first hand
Being from utter slums in Rio or Cali but possessing solid gorgeous looks a woman can indeed use her sexual wiles and looks to crawl out of that
Its just how it is
And we have no right to judge
I was not born in a slum
Ill make it even more simple
I grew up in a rarified rich section of s middle size southern capital
After aged 15
A plethora beautiful wives and so so looking men
Now as a grown man ....Williamson county TN ....again a rich mostly white families where yet again the wives tend to be hot
Its just how the world works
A plain rich man often has an attractive wife
Its easier to love a rich man as they say
Im not judging women whether beautiful wives married to plain cardiologists ....or attractive whores crawling out of the favela
That girl from the favela can change her and her kids trajectory markedly
And many do
Remember there’s no antibiotics!
Women & men died horribly from venereal disease
“One night wit Venus and a life time with Mercury” was the old saying, mercury compounds being a supposed cure.
Winston Churchill’s father Randolph died young and in madness from VD, brilliant and promising political career ended early.
“...whore house candles”
Not much light and for good reason.
I read Manchester’s work on Churchill. Maddening the shenanigans those royals.
Yep!
I saw that and had to snicker, but figured he has enough problems...;}
Its the road to hell.
These women are destroying themselves. They have souls.
I thought so too.
She played a role as a farmers daughter in the British series, The Darling Buds of May. The taxman, Charlie, is sent out to the farm to collect back taxes. CZJ seduces Charlie, (relax folks, they marry later on). Charlie forgot all about those tax numbers.
Its a funny series, that scene is hillarious.
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