La Païva
(1819-1884)
French courtesan
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Esther Lachmann (generally known as La Païva 7 May 1819 – 21 January 1884) was the most famous of the 19th-century French courtesans. A notable investor and architecture patron, and a collector of jewels, she had a personality so hard-bitten that she was described as the "one great courtesan who appears to have had no redeeming feature". Count Horace de Viel-Castel, a society chronicler, called her "the queen of kept women, the sovereign of her race".
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7 May 1819 Moscow, Russia
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| Died |
21 January 1884 (aged 64)
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| Zodiac | Taurus |
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