Lanterne Verte
The Lanterne Verte ( fr. Green lantern ) was a brothel café in Paris . It was located on the corner of Rue de Chartres and Rue de la Goutte d'Or in the Goutte d'Or district in the 18th arrondissement and was one of the more moderate mass brothels in Paris. The special thing about this brothel was that it had no rooms. The writer and poet Sylvain Bonmariage describes it in his book Gagneuses as follows:
- The Lanterne Verte was a brothel; It was declared as such and in its large hall, which was set up as a café, naked girls served who embodied the offer of the house. A glass of white wine cost one franc and whoever wanted to fuck the girls or wank one off paid the waitress forty sous. Everything happened on a bench or a chair in the establishment: there were no rooms. New customers usually surprised two or three couples who were in full swing. This Lanterne Verte was doing well; Each waitress "served" an average of thirty customers between twelve noon and five in the morning, which earned her sixty francs;
In contrast to other mass brothels in Paris such as Le Fourcy , the prostitutes were treated more fairly there.
- [...] she gave a quarter of it to the puff mother. The daily wage of a worker at that time was at most ten francs!
But it wasn't all intact in the green lantern:
- The chairs were in defective condition, [...]
The Lanterne Verte was closed in 1921.
Sources and literature
- ↑ Sylvain Bonmariage : Gagneuses. Chronique de l'amour vénal. Impr. De la Clé d'or, Paris 1952, quoted from Alphonse Boudard, Romi: The golden age of the brothel. Heyne, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05181-5 , p. 50 (slaughter cattle, the last destination)