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'The Pretty Women of Paris': Prostitutes pose for photos in 19th Century handbook [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 19, 2018 | Chris Pleasance

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 ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: crazyhorse; disease; france; girlsgirlsgirls; paris; sex; victorian
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To: boomop1

The over the hill lesbian is way high on the fugly scale.


21 posted on 03/19/2018 6:54:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: anton

Well...Cora Pearl might do in a pinch.


22 posted on 03/19/2018 6:59:40 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: C19fan

Bkmrk


23 posted on 03/19/2018 7:01:12 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Savage Beast

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.


24 posted on 03/19/2018 7:08:53 AM PDT by anton
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To: C19fan

bump


25 posted on 03/19/2018 7:11:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: C19fan

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.


26 posted on 03/19/2018 11:07:03 AM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Yeah, the pecksniffs alluding to ugly women pictured are fooling nobody.


27 posted on 03/19/2018 2:20:22 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: C19fan

Prostitution in France remained legal until 6th April 2016


Now, I did not know that.


28 posted on 03/19/2018 2:22:07 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: C19fan
prolly all frenchified... whore house candles

29 posted on 03/19/2018 5:22:30 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: central_va

Lol

Cat ladies gonna get you...


30 posted on 03/19/2018 5:23:41 PM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: central_va; rockrr
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.

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?

31 posted on 03/19/2018 5:33:24 PM PDT by x
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To: Persevero

One made 3 million bucks

I d known some whores in my time....fancy ones

It’s not all human trafficking or whatever

It’s a way up or out for beautiful women in nations like Brazil or Colombia

I’ve 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

It’s just how it is

And we have no right to judge

I was not born in a slum

I’ll 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

It’s just how the world works

A plain rich man often has an attractive wife

It’s easier to love a rich man as they say

I’m 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


32 posted on 03/19/2018 5:37:29 PM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: x

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.


33 posted on 03/19/2018 5:39:38 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Chode

“...whore house candles”

Not much light and for good reason.


34 posted on 03/19/2018 5:44:21 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: PLMerite
that too... they were timers and you had about seven minutes to finish up/pay more or get kicked out
35 posted on 03/19/2018 5:55:24 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Reily

I read Manchester’s work on Churchill. Maddening the shenanigans those royals.


36 posted on 03/19/2018 5:57:23 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Yep!


37 posted on 03/19/2018 6:02:53 PM PDT by Reily
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To: x

I saw that and had to snicker, but figured he has enough problems...;’}


38 posted on 03/19/2018 6:19:13 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: wardaddy

It’s the road to hell.

These women are destroying themselves. They have souls.


39 posted on 03/19/2018 8:15:48 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
There is one in there (second row of pics on the left) who bears a striking resemblance to Catherine Zeta Jones

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.

It’s a funny series, that scene is hillarious.

40 posted on 03/19/2018 9:13:14 PM PDT by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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