Beneath the Capital with Miss Parisette

Lautrec, La Danse au Mouin-Rouge,

huile sur tale, 1890.

Where did people fall in love in Belle Époque Paris? What was hidden behind beautiful windows and heavy red curtains? Where did homosexual men and women meet? When was the first pornographic film screened? Curious Parisians, culture lovers, tourists in

search of spice or aphrodisiacs-Miss Parisette, aka Elinor Agam, takes you on a journey to discover the chic (and less chic...) underbelly of the capital.

The Elegance of Elinor

It is a distinctly Parisian elegance that welcomes us with our guide Elinor, shessed in a long white satin skirt and a short wool coat with flared sleeves. At the start of the visit, we meet other curious participants in Place Saint-Georges, right in the heart of the 9th arrondissement.

Libertinage, Taboos and Masquerades

From one place to another, images of another time seern to overlap with our own. In an era when women-had very limited

means of escaping their status, joung women in estravagant

Visuel principal: Henri de Toulouse-

Lautrec, La Dense au Moulin-Rouge, huile sur toile, 1890.

dresses would-un down staticases laughing. Beautful by day or righ loirds, their adom ments masked the injustice or fraglity of their condition. They are often described as nalve, light, frivolus-but make no

In a tea salon reserved exclusively for women joung ladies

gathered and loved each other behind the curtains. Compédy wisible, It. Is stos Forgulettely invisible it is still difficult foday to find historical places wherit lestbian encounters occurred. A stop at a sex shop reminds us that sex toys are nothing new, and that the vibrator was inventel of the

A stop at a sex shop reminds us that sex toys are nothing new, a' earj. lag 16 century. At, last, men dscocribed essesss.as early as the 19th century. At lest, men discover the existence of fernale orgasms.

But let's not reveal everything at once. Paris has its princesses, Its secrets, its unsuspected beauties, its jlayful curiosities, and its décadent mirages, If you wish to uncover them in broad light, you'll Hoping to have sparked your curiosity...

All information for an erotic and cultural tour can be found here.