Liane de Pougy

Liane de Pougy , was a Folies Bergre dancer renowned as one of Pariss most beautiful and notorious courtesans.

Anne Marie Chassaigne was born in La Flche, Sarthe, France, the daughter of Pierre Blaise Eugne Chassaigne and his wife Aime Lopez, and raised in a nunnery. At the age of 16, she ran off with Armand Pourpe, a naval officer, eventually marrying because she was pregnant. The baby was named Marc Pourpe, and his mother was, in her own opinion a terrible mother. My son was like a living doll given to a little girl. She would have preferred the baby to be a girl because of the dresses and the curly hair. Marc grew up to volunteer as an airman in World War I and was killed onDecember 1914 near VillersBrettoneux.

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