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    La Fleur blanche was a famous maison close (brothel) in the city of Paris, located at 6 rue des Moulins in the 1st Arrondissement. The property was also...
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  • The Japanese room won a design prize at the 1900 World Fair in Paris. Madame Kelly died in 1899. La Fleur blanche was a famous maison close (brothel)...
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    Kremlin–Bicêtre opened on 10 December 1982 following an extension from Maison Blanche and served as the southern terminus of the new branch of line 7 until...
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    changed to La Maison Blanche and it operated until 1939. In late 1939 a Montreal businessman, Tom G. Potter, bought the old La Maison Blanche, demolished...
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    mistress Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, and it derives its name from him. After Leopold's death, Blanche Delacroix...
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  • dangers and therefore the necessity for control. To do that he advocates maison-closes, a hospital to treat women with venereal diseases, a prison to punish...
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  • Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, better known as Caroline Lacroix (French pronunciation: [kaʁɔlin lakʁwa]; 13 May 1883 – 12 February 1948), was the...
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    Erotiques by Patrick Buisson. The French legal brothels, known as "maisons closes" or "maisons de tolérance", were closed by law in 1946, after a campaign by...
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    Absinthe (redirect from Red fairy)
    Travel: Maison de l'Absinthe in Môtiers". CUISINE HELVETICA. 25 June 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2024. "La maisonMaison de l'Absinthe". Maison de l'Absinthe...
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    164-167. https://www.clippcity.com/article/insolite/le-one-two-two-la-maison-close-preferee-des-celebrites#[dead link‍] "One Two Two, le lupanar des...
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    Quénetain, Christophe. "De quelques bronzes dorés français conservés à la Maison-Blanche à Washington D.C." in La Revue, Pierre Bergé & associés, n°6, mars 2005...
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    Maison Souquet is a 5-star hotel, part of Maisons Particulieres Collection (hotel group), located at 10, rue de Bruxelles in Paris, on the outskirts of...
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    Le Sphinx was a maison close (brothel) in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s. Along with the "Le Chabanais" and "One-Two-Two" it was considered one of the most...
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    to Paris, she became a popular figure in the salons, and her own drawing room became a centre for the discussion and consumption of the literary arts....
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    similarly confrontational. Emilie worked as a madam with a brothel in the Rue Blanche and called herself "Marquesse". In the early 1880s, conflict came with...
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  • 1944. 4 January 1948 she gave birth to her daughter, Catherine Madeleine Blanche Hutin (now married: Hutin-Blay) and Jacqueline married André Hutin, an...
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  • hosted by the character Blanche. Each sacrificed team member would have to complete a challenge of skill or luck set by Blanche. If the sacrificed team...
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    Villa Fallet, a chalet in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (1905) The "Maison Blanche", built for Le Corbusier's parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1912) The Villa...
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  • a Past (Jean Martet) Stranger in the House (1967) Les Inconnus dans la maison (1942) The novel The Strangers in the House (Georges Simenon) Sweet Devil...
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  • have anything to do with it, so a violent quarrel broke out. I left the room because I could not stand to see what was happening". On 22 May 2007, the...
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    made by Boucher, and he was able to show it to the King: I had a private room that I wanted to enrich with four pieces of the most expert painters of our...
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  • but the cockroaches end up trapping him there. 12b 12b "House for Rent" "(Maison à louer)" Olivier Jean-Marie Nicolas Gallet Thomas Szabo October 18, 1998 (1998-10-18)...
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    including the Café de Paris, the Rocher de Cancale, the Café Anglais, Maison Dorée and the Café Riche, were mostly located near the theatres on the Boulevard...
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    flesh-toned installation in a soft and womb-like room. Made of plaster, latex, wood, fabric, and red light, Destruction of the Father was the first piece...
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    himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and Constance of Castile. In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant...
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    nostre court ; plusieurs iours apres il sentoit si mal par tout nostre maison, qu'on n'en pouuoit supporter l'odeur. Ie croy que le peché que sentit saincte...
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    tapestries in the room, which is predominantly laid out in red and gold decor. In 1984 President François Mitterrand added ten windows to the room to let in more...
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    it's been furnished by discount stores", and called it "that dreary Maison Blanche." Her desire to update the interior, however, was not immediately embraced...
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    Jean Cocteau (category People from Maisons-Laffitte)
    "poésie graphique" and "poésie cinématographique". Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, to Georges Cocteau and Eugénie Lecomte, a socially...
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    Alexandre (ed.). Jules hardouin-Mansart 1646–1708. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. pp. 215–228. ISBN 9782735111879. Wikimedia Commons...
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