Season's Greetings

I hope to be the first to wish you all a wonderful season of joy and happiness.

I will be unable to post for a while due to some engagement abroad.

However, i hope to jingle your bells in the new year!

More Famous Courtesans

18th and 19th centuries


Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux (1717–1744)
Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (1681–1749)
Louise Julie, Comtesse de Mailly (1710-1751)
Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764)
Kitty Fisher (died 1767)
Sophia Baddeley (1745–1786)
Madame du Barry (1743–1793)
Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737–1814)
Dorothy Jordan (1761–1816)
Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (1753–1821)
Grace Elliott (1754? – 1823)
Harriette Wilson (1786–1846)
Marie Duplessis (1824–1847)
Lola Montez (1821–1861)
Cora Pearl (1835–1886)
Catherine Walters (1839–1920)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)
Lillie Langtry (1853–1929)
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861–1938)
Alice Keppel (1869–1947)
Liane de Pougy (1869-1950)
La Belle Otero (1868-1965)

A Few Famous Courtesans

17th century and before

Lais of Corinth
Lais of Hyccara (killed 340 BC)
Aspasia (469 BC-409 BC) - lover of the Athenian statesman
Phryne (4th century BC)
Su Xiaoxiao (late 5th century)
Jane Shore (1445-1527)
Margaret Drummond (Mistress) (1475-1502) - mistress to King James IV of Scotland
Françoise de Foix (1495-1537) - first official mistress of King Francis I of France
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) - official mistress of King Henry II of France
Mary Boleyn (1499 - 1543) - mistress of King Henry VIII of England and (allegedly) lover of King Francis I of France
Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508-1580) - last official mistress of King Francis I of France
Veronica Franco (1546–1591) - a Venician courtesan who was once lover to King Henry III of France
Marie Touchet (1549 - 1638) - the only mistress of King Charles IX of France
Marion Delorme (circa 1613–1650) - lover of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, the Prince of Condé and Cardinal Richelieu
Ninon de l'Enclos (1615–1705) - lover of the Prince of Condé and Gaspard de Coligny
Lucy Walter (1630-1658) - mistress-in-exile to King Charles II of Great Britain
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709) - first official mistress at the court of King Charles II of Great Britain
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan (1641-1707) - mistress to King Louis XIV of France
Louise de la Vallière (1644 - 1710) - mistress to King Louis XIV of France
Nell Gwynne (1650–1687) - mistress to King Charles II of Great Britain