Anne Deslions (died 1873) was a French courtesan, one of the most famous

demimonde is French for "half-world". The term derives from a play called , by Alexandre Dumas , published in 1855. The play dealt with the way that prostitution at that time threatened the institution of marriage. The was the world occupied by elite me ...

courtesans during the

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. She was born in poverty, and ran away from a brothel at the age of sixteen, after which she was established as a high class courtesan in Paris. One of her most known clients were

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. She has been pointed out as the role model for the character of Nana by

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

.Granström, Alvar, Kvinnor och krinoliner: en mode- och sedeskildring från krinolinmodets tid, Carlsson, Stockholm, 1990 A French potato dish, ''Pommes de terre Annette'' or

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, was created and named by French chef

Adolphe Dugléré Adolphe Dugléré (3 June 1805 in Bordeaux – 4 April 1884 in Paris) was a French chef and a pupil of Marie-Antoine Carême. Les Frères Provençaux Dugléré was a ''chef de cuisine'' to the Rothschild family until 1848, and was manag ...

for Anna Deslions, who frequented Dugléré's

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{{reflist 1873 deaths People of the Second French Empire French courtesans