De Pougy, Liane ___ 1869-1950 ___ French ___ escort

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Anne-Marie Chassaigne was born in Brittany, educated in a convent, and married at 16. After two years of maltreatment by her husband she ran away to Paris, changed her name to Liane, and became a much-talked about dancer. She had a string of rich and famous lovers who gave her expensive gifts. She also loved women, and, in the last years of the 18th century fell for an American heiress called Natalie Barney. For a short while, until Barney left her, the couple scandalised Paris society. Subsequently, the betrayed Liane wrote a thinly-disguised autobiographical novel, 'Sapphique'. In 1910, she married Georges Ghika, a Romanian prince, and she changed her name back to Anne-Marie and called herself Princess Ghika. The marriage lasted for 16 years, until Ghika left her for a younger woman. In the mid-1940s, after the death of her estranged husband, Liane joined a convent of nuns, and used her time to care for abandoned children.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1919-1941 ___ love/sex society people

WEB TEXT LINKS
a page of extracts
 

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
 

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
My Blue Notebooks
 

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