[COURTISANES SECOND EMPIRE] Léontine MASSIN 1847-1901), arti - Lot 463

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[COURTISANES SECOND EMPIRE] Léontine MASSIN 1847-1901), arti - Lot 463
[COURTISANES SECOND EMPIRE] Léontine MASSIN 1847-1901), artist and demi-mondaine. Vintage print on albumen paper, business card size, 10.5 x 6 cm. By CH. REUTLINGER. Great courtesan, registered with the Police des Mœurs under number 210: "At the age of fourteen, she made her debut at the Folies-Dramatiques, met Julien Deschamps who seduced her. Shortly afterwards she met the pimp Catelain, who had her make appointments. A little later, a woman Piteau, a toilet trader, having been arrested for breach of trust, Léontine Massin, who had bought various objects from her, was summoned before the examining magistrate. She was so frightened that she left France to go to Odessa with a troupe of which Julien was a member. She played the comedy. Back in France, she spent some time in Le Havre, then in Lille where she played well enough to obtain a certain success. [...] Her beauty brought her a lot of success, and she launched herself again into the gallant life. July 1865 : She is maintained by Prince Paul Demidoff. June 1866 : Called by M. Henriquet, examining magistrate, she presented herself with M. Frédéric Béchard, and admitted that she had made two deals with Marie Gauchet, the pimp, to whom she had given half the sum she had received. August 1867: She had in recent times for maintenance a man named Balanzi, whom she replaced by the young Pillet-Will, son of the banker. May 1874 : She makes appointments with a pimp in the rue Saint-Lazare for five louis.
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