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Brothels
Brothels in Paris Aux Belles Poules Le Chabanais La Fleur blanche L'Étoile de Kléber Lanterne Verte Le Fourcy Maison Souquet One-Two-Two Le Sphinx
Law
Loi Marthe Richard
Organisations
Les amis du bus des femmes
Red-light districts
Bois de Boulogne Quartier Pigalle
Other
Bordel militaire de campagne; Brigade de répression du proxénétisme; The French Woman; Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem); Prostitution in Impressionist painting
People
Brothel owners & madams
Madame Claude; Marguerite Gourdan; Justine Paris
Courtesans
Marguerite Alibert; Marguerite Bellanger; Jeanne Brécourt; Berthe de Courrière; Marion Delorme; Anne Victoire Dervieux; Marie-Anne Detourbay; Marie Duplessis; Rosalie Duthé; Marthe de Florian; Eugénie Fougère; Marguerite Gourdan; Catherine Grand; Marie-Madeleine Guimard; Valtesse de La Bigne; Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange; Geneviève Lantelme; Méry Laurent; Ninon de l'Enclos; Léonie Léon; Theroigne de Mericourt; Marie-Louise O'Murphy; La Païva; Justine Paris; Madame de Pompadour; Liane de Pougy; Anne de Rohan-Chabot; Apollonie Sabatier; Charlotte de Sauve; Marguerite Steinheil; Thérésa Tallien
Pimps
Hamida Djandoubi; Rétaux de Villette
Prostitutes
Fernande Barrey; Zahia Dehar; Jean Genet; Valtesse de La Bigne; Caroline Lacroix; Jamila M'Barek; Suzanne Muzard; Marthe Richard; Rétaux de Villette
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The authorities of medieval Paris attempted to confine prostitution to a particular district. Louis IX (1226–1270) designated nine streets in the Beaubourg Quartier where it would be permitted. In the early part of the 19th century, state-controlled legal brothels (then known as "maisons de tolérance" or "maisons closes") started to appear in several French cities. By law, they had to be run by a woman (typically a former prostitute), and their external appearance had to be discreet. The maisons were required to light a red lantern when they were open (from which is derived the term red-light district[1]), and the prostitutes were only permitted to leave the maisons on certain days and only if accompanied by its head. By 1810, Paris alone had 180 officially approved brothels.
During 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.
France outlawed brothels in 1946, after a campaign by Marthe Richard. At that time there were 1,500 of them across the country, with 177 in Paris alone.[2] The backlash against them was in part due to their wartime collaboration with the Germans during the occupation of France. Twenty-two Paris brothels had been commandeered by the Germans for their exclusive use; some had made a great deal of money by catering for German officers and soldiers.[3][4] One brothel in the Montmartre District of the French capital was part of an escape network for POWs and shot-down airmen.[5]
^Rossiaud 1995.
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^Moore, Matthew (1 May 2009). "French brothels 'flourished during the Nazi occupation'". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
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