• most luxurious brothels in Paris, operating near the Louvre at 12 rue Chabanais from 1878 until 1946, when brothels were outlawed in France. It was founded...
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    prostitutes, and to ban brothels and procuring. Some countries not parties to the convention also ban prostitution or the operation of brothels. Various United...
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  • closed in Paris. Among the most famous are the One-Two-Two, Le Chabanais, Le Sphinx and La Fleur blanche. An exhibition about historical Paris brothels took...
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    Le Sphinx (category Brothels in Paris)
    luxurious and famous Parisian brothels. It was the first luxury brothel and opened on the left bank of Seine. Because of its location in the triangle of "literary"...
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    Le Chabanais (category Brothels in Paris)
    most luxurious brothels in Paris, operating near the Louvre at 12 rue Chabanais from 1878 until 1946, when brothels were outlawed in France. It was founded...
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    May 2018. "Fallon Brothels". NV Brothels. Archived from the original on 7 February 2003. Retrieved 4 May 2018. "Only Brothel License In Churchill County...
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    While most brothels in mid 18th-century Paris had no more than three prostitutes working in the brothel at any one time, Justine Paris had 14 and she...
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    The latter considered brothels to be "bourgeois". As a result, the legal brothels were closed. (This serves as a plot point in the first James Bond novel...
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    Paul Carbone (category French civilians killed in World War II)
    in Paris, where the Prefect of Police, Jean Chiappe, was a friend of Carbone. They initially set up an upmarket brothel in Montmartre. All brothels in...
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    Militaire de Campagne ("Mobile Field Brothels" or "Mobile Military Brothel", both abbreviated to BMC) were mobile brothels used during World War I, World War...
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    Zahia Dehar (category Sex scandals in France)
    continued until the mid-2010s. In late 2011, the Paris prosecutor asked for a dismissal for Ribéry and Benzema; but in August 2012, nine people were sent...
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    One-Two-Two (category Brothels in Paris)
    illustrious brothels of Paris in the 1930s and 1940s. The name was taken from the address, 122 Rue de Provence, 8th arrondissement of Paris. The numbers...
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  • L'Étoile de Kléber (category Brothels in Paris)
    was a maison close (brothel) in Paris. It obtained notoriety for continuing to run after the 1946 Loi Marthe Richard ban on brothels. It continued its operations...
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    François Spirito (category Nazis convicted in absentia)
    the brothels in Paris were controlled by an obese Italian, Charles Codebo. Carbone and Spirito couldn't get him to lose weight so they muscled-in on his...
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  • Madame Claude (category French brothel owners and madams)
    prostitution network in Paris for the next decade. At this time she ran a brothel in the expensive 16th arrondissement of Paris. "There are two things...
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    Marguerite Steinheil (category French expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    in a nursing home in the town on 17 July 1954. Steinheil is one of the main characters in the French TV drama, Paris Police 1900, which premiered in 2021...
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  • Loi Marthe Richard (category Prostitution law in France)
    municipal de Paris a proposal for the closure of Paris brothels. In her speech, she did not attack prostitutes as much as society, responsible in her view...
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    La Fleur blanche (category Brothels in Paris)
    regency financier, and became a brothel in 1860 during the Second Empire. It was one of the most luxurious brothels in Paris. Its clientele included kings...
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    opposes the reopening of brothels. In the 21st century, the fight against pimps has grown and caused the closure of many brothels. A law for internal security...
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  • force in 1947, banning brothels, the authorities aim of restricting prostitution to brothels was unachievable. HIV is a problem on the island, In 1988...
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  • defend her in court". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 July 2010. Willsher, Kim (22 May 2007). "Death of the lord who liked bats, birds and brothels". The...
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    SS soldiers. These brothels were generally new creations, but in the west, they were sometimes expansions of pre-existing brothels and other buildings...
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    Theroigne de Mericourt (category Women in the French Revolution)
    surfacing in Rome. In May 1789, after her younger brother was situated in Rome, she traveled from Italy to Paris, where she became swept up in the early...
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    possession of the floor above his apartment and began to frequent the brothels in Paris. In 1927, Picasso began an affair with a 17-year-old French girl, Marie-Thérèse...
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    Rosalie Duthé (category Courtesans from Paris)
    stupid, but dumb in the literal sense. This inspired a one-act satire about her called Les Curiosités de la Foire (Paris 1775) that "kept Paris laughing for...
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    be living in Paris and representing himself as the ‘Comte‘ de Villette, a title that really belonged to his elder brother. While in Paris, Rétaux supported...
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  • Elles (series) (category Brothels in Paris)
    scenes from French brothels he was known to visit from 1892 to 1895. Elles was first published by Gustave Pellet and exhibited in Paris at the 20th Salon...
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  • Caroline Lacroix (category Political sex scandals in Belgium)
    Belgium's mistresses. Delacroix, who was of French origin, met the king in Paris as a young girl, when she was only 16 and he was 65. At that time, she...
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    Ninon de l'Enclos (category Courtesans from Paris)
    French author, courtesan and patron of the arts. Born Anne de l'Enclos in Paris on 10 November 1620, she was nicknamed "Ninon" at an early age by her father...
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    January 1893 in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – 14 July 1960 in Paris) was a French artist model and painter. Fernande Barrey left her native Picardy in about 1908...
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