EP 121: Paris History Avec A Hemingway (Liane de Pougy)

Liane de Pougy at the end of her life was labeled “from whore to nun” but I am getting ahead of myself. Anne Marie Chassaigne was born June 2, 1869 in La Flèche in the Loire and raised in Brittany. On July 15, 1886, at 17 she married Joseph Armand Henri Pourpee who was a naval officer living in Marseille. Joseph would be gone a lot and Anne Marie filled her time with another man. Suffering from frequent attacks by her husband that left scars on her chest for the rest of her life, i...