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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 ...
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.
In 2010, Brain Magazine published a map of prostitution in Paris by area of origin: South American transexuals in the Bois de Boulogne; African prostitutes in Barbès-Rochechouart as well as in vans known as "BMC" (Bordel militaire de campagne) in the Bois de Vincennes, French in Strasbourg – Saint-Denis; Chinese, Mongolian and Romanian at ...
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 (pimping), and paying for sex with someone under the age of 18 (the age of consent for sex is 15). [161]
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]
The Government of France fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to train prosecutors and judges to make better use of France's anti-trafficking law, continued to prosecute forced prostitution and forced labor offenders, and increased public–private partnerships to prevent ...
Loi Marthe Richard (Marthe Richard Law) of 13 April 1946 abolished the regime of regulated prostitution in France that had been in force since 1804. It required the closure of brothels ("maisons de tolérance").
History of prostitution in France; I. Prostitution in Impressionist painting; L. Les amis du bus des femmes; Ligue pour le relèvement de la moralité publique;