Liane de Pougy

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Liane de Pougy [1] (ganet d'an 2 a viz Gouere 1869 - marvet d'ar 26 a viz Kerzu 1950), a oa dañserez brudet er Folies Bergères hag unan eus koantañ plac'hed Paris en hec'h amzer.

Taolenn 1 He buhez 2 After Paris 3 Second Marriage 4 Iconography 5 Levrioù

[kemmañ] He buhez

Ganet e oa Anne Marie Chassaigne e La Flèche, Sarthe, France, merc'h e oa da Pierre Blaise Eugène Chassaigne ha d'e wreg Aimée Lopez, ha savet e voe en ur gouent. Pa voe 16 e skampas kuit Anne-Marie gant Armand Pourpe, ofiser er verdeadurezh. .Brazezet e voe neuze, ha dimeziñ a rejont.. [2]

N'eo ket un dimeziñ evurus a voe graet; Anne-Marie a skivas en hec'h eñvorennoù e voe gwallet gant he fried da noz he c'h eured an event which left her emotionally scarred. When Armand Pourpe's naval career led him to a billet in Marseilles, Anne-Marie took a lover (the Marquis Charles de MacMahon), and her husband found them in bed together and shot her. She ran away to Paris, leaving her infant son (the future pilot Marc Pourpe) with his father. Armand sent his son to live with the boy's grandparents, in Suez.

After this marriage failed, she began dabbling in acting and prostitution.

[kemmañ] After Paris

After moving to Paris, from her position at the Folies she became a noted demimondaine, rival of "La Belle Otero". She took her last name from one of her paramours, a Comte or Vicomte de Pougy. Actress Sarah Bernhardt, faced with the task of teaching Liane to act, advised her that when she was on stage, it would be best to keep her "pretty mouth shut". Her lesbian affair with writer Natalie Clifford Barney is recorded in her novel Idylle Saphique, published around 1901. In 1899, after seeing de Pougy at a dance hall in Paris, Barney presented herself at de Pougy's residence in a page costume and announced that she was a "page of love" sent by Sappho. Although de Pougy was one of the most famous women in France at the time, constantly sought after by wealthy and titled men, Barney's audacity charmed and seduced her. The two were said to have had deep feelings for one another for the remainder of their lives.

[kemmañ] Second Marriage

Upon her marriage to Prince Georges Ghika in 1920 she became Princess Ghika; this marriage ended in separation, though not divorce. Her son's death as an aviator in World War I turned her towards religion and she became a tertiary of the Order of Saint Dominic as Sister Anne-Mary. She became involved in the Asylum of Saint Agnes, devoted to the care of children with birth defects. She died at Lausanne, Switzerland.

[kemmañ] Iconography

Portraits by Antonio de La Gandara - www.lagandara.fr

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[kemmañ] Levrioù

• My Blue Notebooks (Mes cahiers bleus, hec'h eñvorennoù), embannet e saozneg e 1979. ISBN 1-58542-156-1