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As a young woman she became an actress and used the stage name "Raymonde de Laroche". She was inspired by Wilbur Wright 's 1908 demonstrations of powered flight in Paris and was personally acquainted with several aviators, including artist-turned-aviator Léon Delagrange , who was reputed to be the father of her son André.
Marie-Louise O'Murphy (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁi.lwiz ɔ‿.myʁ.fi]; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814) was a French model who was the youngest lesser mistress (petites maîtresses) of King Louis XV of France, and the model for François Boucher's painting The Blonde Odalisque, also known as The Resting Girl. [1]
Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
Tricoteuse (French pronunciation: [tʁikɔtøz]) is French for a knitting woman.The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women in the French Revolution who sat in the gallery supporting the left-wing politicians in the National Convention, attended the meetings in the Jacobin club, the hearings of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and sat beside the guillotine during ...
Later in 2016, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated in a speech that the burkini swimsuit was an "enslavement" of women and that Marianne was usually topless which The Economist noted: "The implication seemed to be that women in burkinis are un-French, while true French women go topless."
French Language and Literature. Authors • Lit categories: French literary history Medieval 16th century • 17th century 18th century • 19th century
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: French This category exists only as a container for other categories of French women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The Cup of Chocolate is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), featuring a model known as Margot. [note 1] The painting, dated between 1877 and 1878, depicts a portrait of a young French bourgeois woman drinking either coffee or chocolate in a setting of luxury.