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Anne de Seguier, 16th-century French poet and salon-holder; Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, who pioneered the nouveau roman; Albertine Sarrazin (1937–1967), French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and poet; Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; born 1967), Taiwanese-born French comics artist and short-story writer
Mireille Guiliano was born in 1946 in Moyeuvre-Grande, France. [1] She completed a year of her education as an exchange student in the United States and studied French and English literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (1966–1970) and received her master's degree.
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry. The Pennsylvania State University Press. Delachenal, Roland (1909). Histoire de Charles V. Vol. I. Picard. Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle (2016). Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500. Translated by Krieger, Angela. Palgrave Macmillan. Kendall, Paul Murray (1971).
Marie Duplessis (born Alphonsine Rose Plessis; 15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847 [1]) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men. [2] She was the inspiration for Marguerite Gautier , the main character of the 1848 novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas the younger , one of Duplessis's lovers. [ 1 ]
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Demi-monde is a French 19th-century term referring to women on the fringes of respectable society, and specifically to courtesans supported by wealthy lovers. [1] The term is French for "half-world", and derives from an 1855 play called Le Demi-Monde, by Alexandre Dumas fils, [2] dealing with the way that prostitution at that time threatened the institution of marriage.
Alexandra David-Néel as a teenager, 1886. In 1871, when David-Néel was two years old, her father Louis David, appalled by the execution of the last Communards, took her to see the Communards' Wall at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris; she never forgot this early encounter with the face of death, from which she first learned of the ferocity of humans.