Professor Christine Adams

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448 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Jun

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Oh, God, how old was she here?

She was in her teens.

She was quite young when they met.

Well, she would have been right around 1920 because she's 25 years old when she meets Louis and becomes his mistress.

So it was about five, six years before that.

So she's very young.

I mean, I think of my students.

I mean, that's about their age, right?

Yeah, it's true.

So he introduced her to a fairly sumptuous, you know, sociable lifestyle.

She came into contact with noblemen and, you know, clearly, you know, was a high class courtesan, essentially.

Yeah.

19th century biographer Charles Vattel, who wrote this three-volume book about her, he claims that she was never a prostitute.

She was not registered as a prostitute, either a public one or a clandestine one.

But as he said in sort of typical 19th century fashion, that did not keep her from having a good time and leading a dissolute life.

Oh.

So she got involved in these circles where she associated with these men.

I mean, I think that Jean Dubarry was a casino owner, you know, that also had a sort of brothel on the side.

Well, apparently so.

We don't know the details.

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