• Courtesan (redirect from Courtisan)
    A courtesan is a prostitute with a courtly, wealthy, or upper-class clientele. Historically, the term referred to a courtier, a person who attended the...
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    Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, translated variously as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans, A Harlot High and Low, or as Lost Souls, is an...
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  • Séverin Bavarel as the monk Bruno Georis as Gaston Václav Chalupa as courtisan Pavel Bousek as landlord Petr Klimes as Page Louvre Louis Storme as Colbert...
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    Claude, Anne d’Autriche. Paris: Hachette, 1980. "Irrité de voir tant de courtisans parler de "miracle", Louis XIII aurait répliqué que "ce n'était point...
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    der Karthager, 1879. A. Michel, Virgile et la politique impériale: un courtisan ou un philosophe?, 1971. R.C. Monti, The Dido Episode and the Aeneid:...
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    Documents sur Robert Stuart Seigneur d'Aubigny (1508-1544) Guerrier et courtisan au service de Louis XII et de François Ier (Paris, 2011). Bryony Coombs...
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    Italy in 1515. Le Roux, Nicolas (2000). La Faveur du Roi: Mignons et Courtisans au Temps des Derniers Valois. Champ Vallon. Le Roux, Nicolas (2020). Portraits...
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    epistle translated from the Latin of Adrien Turnèbe, and with it Le Poète courtisan, which introduced the formal satire into French poetry. The Nouvelle Manière...
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    Jean-Paul de Saumeur (1598 — 20 December 1667), often called Chevalier Paul was a French admiral and naval officer who served in several Mediterranean...
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    Le Courtisan suivant le Dernier Édit by Abraham Bosse – a French courtier casting aside lace, ribbons and slashed sleeves in favor of sober dress in accordance...
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