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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Ancient Faces

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


Who led this tumultuous life?
She was born in Paris in 1890, the daughter of a cab driver and a char woman. At age 16, she had a baby. She was then taken up by one of Paris’s most influential madames, who apparently taught her all she needed to know and she became ‘an expert in the arts of love'. She became wealthy through a string of affairs and marriages, one resulting in murder. During WWI she had an affair with a Prince and attempted to blackmail a monarchy.

Who is she?
 
She was born in Paris in 1890, the daughter of a cab driver and a char woman. At age 16, she had a baby. She was then taken up by one of Paris’s most influential madames, who apparently taught her all she needed to know and she became ‘an expert in the arts of love'. She became wealthy through a string of affairs and marriages, one resulting in murder. During WWI she had an affair with a Prince and attempted to blackmail a monarchy.

Who is she?

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