Liane de Pougy

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Liane de Pougy, French Dancer, photo from around 1891/92

Liane de Pougy , née Anne Marie Chassaigne (born July 2, 1869 in La Flèche , † December 26, 1950 in Lausanne ), was a French dancer, writer and courtesan .

biography

In 1889, Anne Marie Chassaigne moved to Paris and quickly made friends with the famous courtesan Valtesse de la Bigne and was introduced to fine Parisian society by her. During this time she took her stage name Liane de Pougy . In the following years she became a star of society. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon , Gabriele D'Annunzio and Jagatjit Singh , Maharaja of Kapurthala were just a few of her many admirers, to whom she was also erotically devoted as a luxury courier.

On April 13, 1884 she performed for the first time with a magic act in Paris in the Folies Bergère . In the same program as Liane de Pougy, La Belle Otéro , Émilienne d'Alençon and the singer Henri Meilhac could be seen and heard. In 1895 an engagement led her to Russia , in 1896 she returned to Paris in the Folies Bergère and danced in various performances. She was tutored in dance by Mariquita , who also choreographed her dances. While Liane de Pougy was engaged in London , she received lessons from the famous dance master Léon Espinoza .

Liane de Pougy, ca.1900

Together with Régina Badet , first dancer at the Opéra national de Bordeaux , she danced in the ballet pantomime Rêve de Noël at the Olympia Theater in Paris in 1896 . In 1899 she met the American millionaire and art lover Natalie Clifford Barney and they both fell in love. In May / June 1901 she celebrated triumphs with a pantomime as a Hindu priestess at the London Palace Theater . Several appearances in Paris followed. On June 8, 1910, she married the Romanian prince and poet Georges Ghika and withdrew from the stage. In 1916, her much younger husband left her. The friendship with the poet Max Jacob , which lasted more than twenty years, and the death of her son as an aviator in World War I, she came to deal with spiritual questions. On August 14, 1943, she joined the third order of the Dominicans . Until her death, she led a secluded life as sister Anne-Marie. She was buried in Saint-Martin-de-Vinoux . Liane de Pougy wrote seven novels. Her diary Mes cahiers bleus was published posthumously in 1977.

Works

  • Ecce homo. D'ici, de la. sn, Paris 1903.
  • L'Elizement. Comédie en un acte. Ed. littéraires et artistiques, Paris, 1900.
  • Idyll saphique. Novel. Edition des Femmes, Paris 1987.
  • L'Insaissable. Roan vécu. Lamm, Paris 1898.
  • Mes cahiers bleus. (Editor: Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski ). Plon, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-259-00267-6 .

literature

  • Jean Chalon: Liane de Pougy. Courtisane, princesse et sainte. Flammarion, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-08-066847-1
  • Brygida M. Ochaim, Claudia Balk: Variety dancers around 1900. From sensual intoxication to modern dance, exhibition by the German Theater Museum in Munich, October 23, 1998– January 17, 1999. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-87877-745-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hubertus Halbfas, Der Glaube, Ostfildern 2010, p. 284

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personal data
SURNAME Pougy, Liane de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chassaigne, Anne Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French dancer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH La Flèche
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1950
Place of death Lausanne