Aux Belles Poules

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The Aux Belles Poules ( French: aux = to (in the plural), plural of belle = beautiful and of poule = hen, the latter colloquially also for prostitutes) was a well-known Parisian brothel , located at rue Blondel 32-34 in the 2nd arrondissement .

A special attraction of the establishment was that the women employed there staged small erotic shows, with which they demonstrated special artistry in the use of their vulva . The writer Henri Calet describes this in his book La Belle Lurette , published in 1935 :

The ladies won forty sous in one game; we had to put the coins on the edges of the table while the ladies "sucked them in" with the slit in their abdomen [...] .

The writer Pierre Deveaux also makes the brothel a topic in his book La Langue verte and describes the furnishings in detail, like a mechanical piano, the guests and anecdotes about the women:

The women available to choose from, lightly dressed, dance with the men before they “climb up”. In doing so, they invent jokes that delight old and young again and again: for example, they stick a burning cigarette in their fiddle or try to suck in coins lying on the edge of the table with the same organ, which then turns into a money box.

The coins were minted in-house, similar to the tokens in casinos. They had a diameter of approx. 22 mm and embossed "AUX BELLE POULEX 32 RUE BLONDEL" on one side and a large chicken with the inscription "PIECE DE PUBLICITÉ" on the other. Other brothels also owned such coins, and today these are auctioned off as curiosities at coin auctions.

The brothel was also known for its tableaux vivants , in which erotic scenes were shown by women, some of whom were equipped with strap-ons .

The establishment was frequented by wealthy urban couples as well as passing tourists. Guests in the house were Jules Pascin and Henry Miller , accompanied by Anaïs Nin . In 1946, like all Parisian brothels , Aux Belles Poules was closed and converted into a student residence in the wake of Loi Marthe Richard , with which the government wanted to fight prostitution. The historian Louis Chevalier describes the last opening evening in his book Histoire de la nuit parisienne .

In 1996 the building on Rue Blondel was listed as a historical monument because of its historical significance.

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  1. ↑ "poule" in the French-language Wiktionary
  2. ^ La Belle Lurette, Henri Calet, Gallimard (L'imaginaire), 1935.
  3. ↑ La Langue vert. suivie des Propos de l'Affranchi, avec des illustrations de l'auteur. Paris Hasan, 1940.
  4. ↑ Jules Pascin on a website for the École de Paris . Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  5. ^ Entry in the French list of historical monuments , accessed on April 24, 2012
  6. ↑ Tony Perrottet: Paris for Perverts , Slate , May 9, 2011
  7. ↑ List of the immeubles protégés au titre de la législation sur les monuments historiques au cours de l'année 1997 by legifrance. Retrieved May 4, 2012

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '8.2 "  N , 2 ° 21' 9.4"  E