[SECOND EMPIRE COURTESY] Hortense SCHNEIDER (1833-1920), sin - Lot 470

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[SECOND EMPIRE COURTESY] Hortense SCHNEIDER (1833-1920), sin - Lot 470
[SECOND EMPIRE COURTESY] Hortense SCHNEIDER (1833-1920), singer. Vintage print on albumen paper, business card size, 10.5 x 6 cm. Famous singer with numerous liaisons, among others, with the Egyptian khedive Ismaïl Pacha, listed in the register of the Police des Mœurs RBB2, under the number 385: "She arrived in Paris with clogs and a canvas dress; it was the women Martin, living in rue Saint-Roch n°27, and Desfontaines, rue Richer n°41, who launched her, and introduced her to her first lovers. She made her debut at the Palais-Royal theatre, where she was very successful, and then it was not long before she made the acquaintance of the Duke of Grammont-Caderousse, who fell madly in love with her, he made enormous expenditures for her, in a word he almost ruined himself and was banned, but this measure did not prevent him from continuing to go into debt for his mistress [...]." "Mademoiselle Hortense Schneider, endowed with a voice that Auber would hear when, he said, he wanted to gargle his ears deliciously, had a complexion like Rubens, with that a vain smile and rascally eyes, to the point of damning an archbishop, as they used to say in the eighteenth century." Gustave Claudin (1823-1896), journalist at the Figaro.
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