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Wealthy prostitutes who ruled the French capital from their beds pose in notorious 19th Century [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 22, 2019 | Julian Robinson

Posted on 01/22/2019 6:55:38 AM PST by C19fan

From a courtesan famed for her wealth to a mistress of a future King of England, these are the women who ruled Paris from their bed.

Photos show 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.

The handbook - which was aimed at visiting English gentlemen in Paris - meticulously described the sexual specialities and background of every prostitute.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: prostitution; victorian
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Victorian version of Craig's List or other sites. Considering how much he slept around, Edward VII was damn lucky he did not get a STD.
1 posted on 01/22/2019 6:55:38 AM PST by C19fan
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“ROXANNE!”


2 posted on 01/22/2019 6:57:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I scrolled through the pics and WOOF!! I didn’t see anything worth paying for!


3 posted on 01/22/2019 7:01:12 AM PST by adamjeeps
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The whole lot of the hookers pictured are just plain god awful coyote ugly.


4 posted on 01/22/2019 7:03:32 AM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: adamjeeps

Hairy armpits and legs and BO! Woo hoo!


5 posted on 01/22/2019 7:04:31 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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It is rumored that George V was told on his deathbed that his foreign secretary and his wife were away. The Foreign secretary was Sir Samuel Hoare, so the King was told, “The Hoares have gone to Paris”.

The dying King replied, “Coals to Newcastle”.


6 posted on 01/22/2019 7:08:54 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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That hairy tradition lives on today.


7 posted on 01/22/2019 7:09:12 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: jonrick46

Who knew severe near sightedness was so pandemic in the Victorian era!


8 posted on 01/22/2019 7:10:19 AM PST by Reily
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They’re showing a lot of leg in some of those pictures.


9 posted on 01/22/2019 7:11:05 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Well, it does seem that a certain haughty horse face former secretary of state is all frenchy and stuff. Perhaps he favors the hairy type?


10 posted on 01/22/2019 7:12:38 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Different eras & different standards. Generally well fleshed as opposed to our current oft criticized skinny ones. I’m going to guess that the gals in this article were, while meeting contemporary beauty standards, top of the class in intelligence, manners and skills.


11 posted on 01/22/2019 7:12:38 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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They look like Roller Ball Girls; nothing I’d touch.


12 posted on 01/22/2019 7:12:49 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: C19fan; Lazamataz

Did someone ping Laz?


13 posted on 01/22/2019 7:13:53 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: C19fan

Is that one-legger in there?


14 posted on 01/22/2019 7:15:26 AM PST by onedoug
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Love the comment section: ”Not a looker in the bunch”
15 posted on 01/22/2019 7:16:40 AM PST by 11th_VA (Hey RATs - Negotiate or Starve)
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Wife and i spent a week at a resort in Ixtapa years ago.
One afternoon while soaking in the pool, we saw a Lufthansa DC-10 flying in to the nearby airport.
Within an hour, the pool was overflowing with German and French women. My wife couldn’t take her eyes off all the hair...


16 posted on 01/22/2019 7:18:07 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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As 'The Pretty Women of Paris' directory shows, many of the prostitutes listed were professional stage actresses. Some of these prostitutes would have been working actresses waiting for their big break so they would have taken pains to entertain their male clients well - in case they were important enough to forward their career on the stage.
The more things change...
17 posted on 01/22/2019 7:21:54 AM PST by Bratch (u)
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I’m 71 yrs old...they don’t look that bad to me!!!!!


18 posted on 01/22/2019 7:26:27 AM PST by ontap
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DNTJ, Leeds, United Kingdom, 8 minutes ago

“I’ve never understood how the French sold virtue - they’ve never had any to begin with”


19 posted on 01/22/2019 7:26:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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"Who knew severe near sightedness was so pandemic in the Victorian era!”

Tertiary syphilis may impair one's sight.

However one may think of these ladies appearance, one must take account that their "customers" were no great prize winners either.
20 posted on 01/22/2019 7:28:17 AM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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