Demimonde (redirect from Demi-mondaine)
"to compare the déclassée woman of to-day with the more flamboyant demi-mondaine of the 1890s."[citation needed] In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)...
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Casque d'Or, the 1952 film by Jacques Becker, tells the story of a young demi-mondaine mixed up with a Belleville street gang. The famous French 10-part seven-hour...
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Héloïse Beaugiron; 9 September 1864 – 29 August 1939) was a French demi-mondaine and socialite during the Belle Époque. She was known for having famous...
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a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented...
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had modelled his work on a life-cast of Mossellman's mistress, the demi-mondaine Apollonie Sabatier (1822–1890), later Charles Baudelaire's muse. The...
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Olympia's confrontational gaze, combined with details identifying her as a demi-mondaine, or courtesan. These include the fact that the name "Olympia" was associated...
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Murger often found inspiration from what they saw as frivolous and naive demi-mondaine women. Gustave Doré engraved them in their glory and decay. Nana, by...
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"to compare the déclassée woman of to-day with the more flamboyant demi-mondaine of the 1890s." He goes on to say, "The line that was intended to establish...
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hunting and sporting élite, Chanel had the opportunity to meet their demi-mondaine mistresses who, as such, were women of fashion, upon whom the rich men...
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Pascal Obispo Raffi Arto Yasmine Ammari Hobbs Gabriel Maëlle Pistoia B. Demi-Mondaine Edouard Edouard Liv Del Estal Yoann Casanova Frédéric Longbois Guillaume...
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middle-aged bourgeois male through the machinations of a disreputable demi-mondaine..." Sarris 1998, pp. 220–221. Baxter 1971, p. 124. Sarris 1998, p. 221:...
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Becky, giving her an income. She returns to England and lives as a demi-mondaine. Her former associates refuse to have anything to do with her. For much...
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Cochinchine – Saïgon JAponaise demi-mondaine (VIETNAM INDOCHINE VIETNAM COCHINCHINE SAIGON JAPONAISE DEMI MONDAINE PROSTITUTION EROTISME GEISHA) (photograph)...
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happiness through love." In her second novel, she "depicts a weary demi-mondaine much less arrogant and self-assured than Josiane and much more sensitive...
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Heuzey - French writer Laure Hayman - French sculptor, salonnière, demi-mondaine of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Paris Jacques Higelin...
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Paris – 29 July 1910, in Ville-d'Avray) was a French courtesan and demi-mondaine. Although born to a working-class family in Paris, she rose through...
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Paris Salon, especially as a number of details identified her as a demi-mondaine, or courtesan. These include the fact that the name "Olympia" was associated...
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avoid each other while they walk around. They have fallen out over the demi-mondaine Métella. She arrives with a third man and pretends not to recognize...
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(12 June 1851 - 22 April 1940) was a French sculptor, salonnière, and demi-mondaine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Paris. The natural...
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is Still Alive; Animal Wood; Theft in a Cake Shop; Dollars and the Demi-Mondaine; Sleeping Like Dogs; Desire in November; A Judgment; The Cat and the...
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this account is probably accurate. Sherard records Wilde picking up a demi-mondaine outside a Paris music hall at this time, and the next day remarking...
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in the French language in the 19th century. Frenchmen still use une demi-mondaine to qualify a woman that lives (exclusively or partially) off the commerce...
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d'affection adressé à une fillette ou à une femme. Vieilli et fam. Élégante demi-mondaine, femme entretenue. Les biches du Second Empire" (Familiar: A term of...
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a drug addict. Her obituary described her as 'volatile Vera Purdy, demi-mondaine, pickpocket, dope fiend, veritable she-cat, one of the most picturesque...
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Stevens' Souvenirs and Regrets. The painting depicts an apathetic Parisian demi mondaine having a bath. Above the tub there are, fixed to the wall, a swan-shaped...
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has shown a Chinese in a red robe with two heads, one is that of a demi-mondaine placed on the shoulders, the other that of a monster, placed we dare...
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Must Be Me"). Cunegonde turns up alive in Paris ("The Paris Waltz"), a demi-mondaine in a house shared by a Marquis and a Sultan. A party is in progress...
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libre dans sa tête" and was chosen by the public for the final over B. Demi Mondaine. In the final held on 12 May 2018, Maëlle performed first Harry Styles'...
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Louis-Sébastien Mercier, observing the dress of Frenchwomen, noted that demi-mondaines were dressing in a manner he described as "a la sauvage", comprising...
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focuses on the relationship between a demi-mondaine and a newly married man. Joan Beverley - Rose, the demi-mondaine Frank Hill - Fred Ellsworthy, the husband...
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