Courtesan
A courtesan is a person paid and/or supported for the giving of social companionship and intimate liaisons to one or more partners. The word is generally reserved for those who enjoyed the most social status for such services. Although the term has been applied to people from several cultures and historical periods, it is most applicable for those to whom it was first given: the women of Renaissance Europe who held a socially recognized, if not quite socially accepted, position as well-compensated companions.
Famous courtesans
- Lais (killed 340 BC)
- Su Xiaoxiao (late 5th century)
- Theodora (500-548)
- Veronica Franco (1546-1591)
- Marion Delorme (circa 1613-1650)
- Ninon de l'Enclos (1615-1705)
- Kitty Fisher (died 1767)
- Harriette Wilson (1786-1846)
- Marie Duplessis (1824-1847)
- Sarah Bernhardt (1844?1923)
- Mata Hari (1876?1917)
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