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    Le Chabanais was one of the best known and most luxurious brothels in Paris, operating near the Louvre at 12 rue Chabanais from 1878 until 1946, when brothels...
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  • shot-down airmen. Le Chabanais was one of the best known and most luxurious brothels in Paris, operating near the Louvre at 12 rue Chabanais from 1878 until...
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    visitor to the most exquisite and lavish bordello of Victorian Paris, Le Chabanais, where the chair, designed specifically to cater for his copulatory tastes...
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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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  • were then 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...
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    constructed "love chair" (siege d'amour) when he visited the famous brothel, Le Chabanais in Paris. The piece still exists and a replica is exhibited at the Musée...
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    Chabanais (French pronunciation: [ʃabanɛ]; Occitan: Chabanès) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. The river Vienne passes...
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    were: le Chabanais (opened 1878 and favored by Prince Edward, who had himself made a special "love seat" there), le Sphinx, la Rue des Moulins, le One-Two-Two...
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    circulated on the web, making the young woman a real "Internet phenomenon". Le Monde initially revealed her name, simply calling her "Zahia D." In May 2010...
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    flourished between 1940 and 1945. Various top Paris brothels, including Le Chabanais, Le Sphinx, One Two Two, La rue des Moulins, and Chez Marguerite, were...
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    the first half of the 20th century, some Paris brothels, such as le Chabanais and le Sphinx, were internationally known for the luxury they provided....
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    Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Palais Oriental (Reims) Le Sphinx Law...
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    herself Doriane. She had formerly worked in another brothel in Paris, Le Chabanais. Doriane, through her husband, acquired 122 Rue de Provence. Initially...
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  • story is set in a luxurious Parisian brothel (a 'maison close', like Le Chabanais) in the early 20th century. It explores the restricted lives of a group...
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  • Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Palais Oriental (Reims) Le Sphinx Law...
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    Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Palais Oriental (Reims) Le Sphinx Law...
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    bought back from them each of the pearls of a collar given to her by Faure (le collier présidentiel, as it became known in the press) and who reclaimed a...
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    Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Palais Oriental (Reims) Le Sphinx Law...
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    Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Palais Oriental (Reims) Le Sphinx Law...
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  • best known were Le Chabanais, Le Sphinx, La Fleur blanche, One-Two-Two but also the maisons d'abattage ("slaughterhouses") such as Le Fourcy and the Lanterne...
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  • Grudet, ed. Michel Lafon (1994): history of Madame Claude by Madame Claude. Les filles de Madame Claude, by Elizabeth Antébi and Anne Florentin, Stock-Julliard...
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    never been proven. As a painter, she exhibited the paintings Josiane and Les Pêches at the Salon d'Automne in 1929. "Fernande Barrey". www.helfenfinearts...
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    and Winston. ISBN 9780030138416. Ottaviani, Thierry (2016). La Corse pour les Nuls poche (in French). edi8. ISBN 9782754089494. Rovner, Eduardo Sáenz (2008)...
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  • suburb of Le Gosier is also known for prostitution, as is Saint-François, where many prostitutes work. Dominican prostitutes also work from bars in Le Gosier...
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    all were locked under close supervision into the Abbey of Arcis near Nogent-le-Rotrou. This confinement was terminated on 21 December 1736: Daniel Morfi...
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    p. 272 Hamel, p. 322 Hamel, p. 323 Hamel, p. 345 Lacour, Léopold (1900). Les origines du féminisme contemporain: Olympe de Gouges, Théroigne de Méricourt...
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    60 per cent of profits. This is the era of famous houses, such as Le Chabanais and Le Sphinx, whose reputation is known internationally. In Paris there...
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    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 weeks."...
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  • Reynie. Based on a network of paid informers and provocateurs (known as les mouches, or "flies"), he succeeded in dismantling the "court of miracles"...
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    Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Palais Oriental (Reims) Le Sphinx Law...
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