Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cocottes (or coquettes) were high class prostitutes in France during the Second Empire and the Belle Époque. [1] They were also known as demimondaines and grandes horizontales. [2] Cocotte was originally a term of endearment for small children, but was used as a term for elegant prostitutes from the 1860s. [3]
A Lorette is a type of 19th-century French prostitute. They stood between the kept women and the grisettes. [1] [2] A grisette had other employment and worked part-time as a prostitute whereas a Lorette supported herself exclusively from prostitution. The lorette shared her favours among several lovers; the Lorette's "Arthurs", as they called ...
Prostitutes and clients conversing at the Palais Royal, Paris, in 1800.Ink and watercolour. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Prostitution in France (the exchange of sexual acts for money) was legal until April 2016, but several surrounding activities were illegal, like operating a brothel, living off the avails (), and paying for sex with someone under the age of 18 (the age of consent for ...
The French president has also been criticised for his exchanges with residents in Mayotte after the island near Madagascar ... which is used as French slang for a promiscuous woman or a prostitute.
Swift's "grisette" (or "grizette" as spelled in early editions of his work) is Irish, not French, and demonstrates that the generic use of the term in English to indicate a woman of loose morals already existed by 1730. Betty is presumed to be a prostitute with whom Swift had consorted in Dublin. [16] Extract from "To Betty, the Grisette" (1730 ...
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.
Étienne Jeaurat, Le transport des filles de joie de l'Hôpital, 1755, musée Carnavalet. The history of prostitution in France has similarities with the history of prostitution in other countries in Europe, namely a succession of periods of tolerance and repression, but with certain distinct features such as a relatively long period of tolerance of brothels.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us