Anne-Marie Chassaigne, known as Liana of Pougy , Mrs Henri Crimson then, by its second marriage, princess Georges Ghika, is a dancer and courtesan of the Belle Time, born the July 2nd 1869 with the Arrow (the Sarthe) and died in Lausanne (Suisse) the December 26th 1950.

Biography

Born from a father officer and a mother of good landed gentry, Anne-Marie Chassaigne accepted an religious education with the convent of Holy-Anne-in Auray in the Morbihan and was married at sixteen years with a brutal man, the lieutenant Henri Pourpre, whose blows left him scars that it preserved all her life. According to certain sources, it went even until drawing on her with her Pistolet. She gave him a son, the pilot Marc Pourpre, who fell during the First World War in 1916 and, after two years of ill treatments, she flees for Paris where she arrived at eighteen years and divorced, with the scandal of her family.

She met the dramatic author Henri Meilhac which fell under the charm and launched it in the theater world by making it engage with the Folies Shepherdess. She took lessons of dance under the direction of Mariquita and, under the pseudonym of Liana of Pougy, she undertook a career of cabaret dancer and launched out in the courtisanery. Openly bisexual, it had lovers and amantes of the two sexes which covered it offered jewels and him crews and all that was necessary to the life of a courtesan of then. Its competition with the Belle Otero contributed to the celebrity of like other.

In 1899, Liane of Pougy met the love of its life, the writer Natalie Clifford Barney. Their connection defrayed the chronicle, but Natalie Barney was not made for a durable engagement and it was not long in misleading its amante. This one told this experiment in one entitled book Idylle saphic (1901), presented like a novel, which was a great best-seller.

In 1910, then at the top of its career, Liane of Pougy met the prince Georges Ghika, of Rumanian origin, very noble but extremely desilvered, which married it. The marriage was perfectly happy during sixteen years, until Georges leaves his wife for another younger. To comfort itself, the princess took several amantes. The prince finishes by him returning, but their relation had become difficult and chaotic.

After its death, towards 1945, the princess entered like beginner in the Third-Order of Saint-Dominique and worked in an orphanage for handicapped children, Asylum Saint-Agnes in Savoy. It repented and abjured its life dissolue. It finishes its life in the prayer with Lausanne. “ It died in eighty-two years, keeping on its face and in its admirable glance the still visible signs of its last beauty. She had wished to die one evening of Christmas; divine Providence exaucé this wish. She had wished that no one did not follow the coffin of that which did not intend any more to be but Anne-Marie-Madeleine of Penitence. This terrestrial skin so much praised, so much liked, from went away solitary. Liana of Pougy had died well. ” (Andre de Fouquières)

Residences

• Private mansion, 11bis Street of Néva (Paris VIII {{E}}).

• the Marie Field with Roscoff, residence of holidays acquired in 1903 and resold in 1926, where it receives her friends like max Jacob or Reynaldo Hahn.
• Carlton Hotel, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Works

• Imperceptible the , novel, dedicated to Lorraine Jean, which was his/her close friend.
• the Bad share , novel.
• Myrrhille
• Idylle saphic , Paris, 1901 (rééd. Paris, Editions of the Women, 1987).
• My Blue Books , Paris, Plon, 1977.

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