Jeanne Duval (French pronunciation: [ʒan dyval]; c. 1820 – after 1862) was a Haitian-born actress and dancer of mixed French and West African ancestry...
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During this time, Jeanne Duval, a Haitian born actress became his mistress. She was rejected by his family. His mother thought Duval a "Black Venus" who...
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Jean-Jacques Duval (1930–2021), French-born American artist Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil (1745–1794), French magistrate and politician Jeanne Duval (c. 1820...
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Maud Sulter (section Jeanne Duval: A Melodrama I–IV)
Edmonia Lewis, and was fascinated by the Haitian-born French performer Jeanne Duval. Born on 19 September 1960 in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Scottish mother...
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well known through literature. The "Black Venus" of the title story is Jeanne Duval, the lover of poet Charles Baudelaire. The anthology's contents are also...
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The Salt Roads (section Jeanne)
18th-century slave and respected healer on a plantation in St. Domingue, Jeanne Duval, the 19th century Haitian actress/dancer and mistress to the French poet...
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nursemaid in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. Another theory suggests that Jeanne Duval, who was in a relationship with Manet's friend Charles Baudelaire, introduced...
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Domitian as a brutal tyrant. The Ravishers (1980), a historical romance by Jeanne Duval, about a Gallic princess who is enslaved in Rome and survives the Year...
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describes a fictionalised account of the writer's love affair with a dancer, Jeanne Duval. Irish literary critic Enid Starkie, known for her biographical works...
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Baudelaire's Mistress (Portrait of Jeanne Duval), 1862...
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