Tag: Liane de Pougy

A Life in Paris – March 23, 1920

Hotel Terminus, room 142, second floor, looking onto the courtyard, twin beds, 34 francs a day, 39 because of the little dog…

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Hotel Terminus, room 142, second floor, looking onto the courtyard, twin beds, 34 francs a day, 39 because of the little dog. Twin beds! Snores, promiscuity, invitations, arguments, sulks! We have been here since yesterday. We were welcomed and installed with the manners refugees have to put up with.

Liane de Pougy

Notes:
• From My Blue Notebooks
• Liane de Pougy was a famed courtesan in Paris who then married a Romanian prince and eventually became a nun.

A Life in Paris – February 22, 1920

We trooped off to the Champs-Elysées theatre, a pretty theatre up on the sixth floor. Cocteau’s show has the very latest thing in music…

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We trooped off to the Champs-Elysées theatre, a pretty theatre up on the sixth floor. Cocteau’s show has the very latest thing in music: overture by Poulenc. We expected something eccentric but it was charming, a flight of elegance. […] It was madly crowded. Friends came up to congratulate me on my appearance. I was the smartest: sable coat and shift-dress of glittering silver material with a large black pattern: a simple style with a touch of the medieval, clear-cut lines. It suits me better than elaboration and it’s never out of fashion. Saw Henri Bernstein and his wife whom I couldn’t find pretty however hard I tried: little shopgirl’s face, badly proportioned features, not ugly, not handsome, insignificant. Women nowadays are so commonplace! […]

The next part of the show was three pieces by Eric Satie, encored and much applauded. The composer had to come down into the auditorium. I had met him before. He pressed our outstretched hands warmly, thanked us for our compliments and withdrew, happy at his success. […] To sum up, the musical side of the show was brilliant, full of charm and talent; but Jean Cocteau’s side of it, to be honest, was deplorable. Parts of his books are admirable. There he has a dazzling gift, a new and bizarre kind of talent. He touches the sublime and overleaps good sense. He should stick to that.

Liane de Pougy

Notes:
• From My Blue Notebooks
• Liane de Pougy was a famed courtesan in Paris who then married a Romanian prince and eventually became a nun.

Thoughts on Paris – February 4, 1925

Very tired by life in Paris, the constricted horizon, the thin air, the useless words..

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Very tired by life in Paris, the constricted horizon, the thin air, the useless words. When I was at a matinée at the Vaudeville Madame R sought me out. I was beautiful and sedate, in black. That afternoon I made a conquest of a charming little actress, Mademoiselle de Guise, who is working at the Palais-Royal theatre. At my age! I was astounded by it. Since this morning I have had — we, Georges and I — had an apartment on the fourth floor at 64 rue Saussure. Simple house, vulgar street, pleasant little ‘flat’ which will do as a pied-à-terre.

Liane de Pougy

Notes:
• From My Blue Notebooks
• Liane de Pougy was a famed courtesan in Paris who then married a Romanian prince and eventually became a nun.

A life in Paris – January 28, 1925

Paris, softened by sweet and premature spring weather…

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Paris, softened by sweet and premature spring weather! We are back in our two comfortable and pretty rooms which a cheerful sun has been illuminating all day. Everything unpacked and put away. I alerted only my furrier and Morgot de La Bigne. The furrier has delivered everything and Margot has called in to give me a kiss. What a lovely girl, fresh, stylish, dazzling rosy complexion, the look of an archangel at the gates of heaven! Her skirt was very short and revealed her right leg, imperious and agile.

Georges seems very happy to be back in Paris. I shall make an effort to be a good and agreeable woman of the world, smiling, futile, indulgent, charitable, cordial. I have made up my mind — but I still feel wild.

Liane de Pougy

Notes:
• From My Blue Notebooks
• Liane de Pougy was a famed courtesan in Paris who then married a Romanian prince and eventually became a nun.