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181:(1743–1793). However, she soon rose well beyond her initial social status. The illegitimate daughter of a seamstress, she had moved to Paris at the age of 15, where, using the name Jeanne Rancon, she worked first as an assistant to a young hairdresser with whom she had an affair and later as a milliner's assistant in a shop named
646:'s early watercolours, painted in Paris in 1906. Hopper's portrayal, like several of those by Guys, shows the grisette wearing a traditional seamstress apron. However, their slightly raised skirts (particularly in the Guys sketches) and provocative poses also allude to the association of grisettes with prostitution.
244:, they came to dominate the bohemian modelling scene. Although the grisette models were perceived to be adventurous, independent, and living only for moment, they sought not only economic support but also emotional and artistic support in their relationships with bohemian men. Jenny, whose story is recounted by
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Grisette", is a prototypical grisette in this sense, initially choosing to model only for artists whom she considers geniuses and declining more lucrative offers to become the lover of bourgeois or even aristocratic men. Janin considered the grisettes an integral part of the bohemian
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The beautiful grisette looked sometimes at the gloves, then sideways to the window, then at the gloves, and then at me. I was not disposed to break silence. I followed her example: so, I looked at the gloves, then to the window, then at the gloves, and then at her, and so on alternately. I found I
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Ah, the grisettes! I had almost forgotten. They are another romantic fraud. They were (if you let the books of travel tell it) always so beautiful—so neat and trim, so graceful—so naive and trusting—so gentle, so winning—so faithful to their shop duties, so irresistible to buyers in their prattling
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He comprehended at last that I wanted to see a grisette. Then he showed me dozens of them. They were like nearly all the
Frenchwomen I ever saw—homely. They had large hands, large feet, large mouths; they had pug noses as a general thing, and moustaches that not even good breeding could overlook;
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from his medical studies in Paris, it expresses not only nostalgia for the young woman who had been his lover but also for Paris itself and all that it represented. It was a nostalgia shared by many of his
American contemporaries who had studied there. Holmes' description of Clemence reflects a
652:'s arresting 1858 portrait of Fumette, his lover at the time, reflects not only his aversion to sentimentality in painting but also the character of Fumette herself, who was a rather unusual grisette. Although Whistler had dubbed her 'Fumette' in imitation of 'Musette', a character in
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they combed their hair straight back without parting; they were ill-shaped, they were not winning, they were not graceful; I knew by their looks that they ate garlic and onions; and lastly and finally, to my thinking it would be base flattery to call them immoral.
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frequent 19th century perception of the grisette as an attentive and self-effacing companion to the starving artists and romantic students of bohemia. Her early death, alluded to in the poem, was not unusual. Many grisettes died of
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trades as seamstresses or shop assistants, the few occupations open to them in 19th century urban France, apart from domestic service. The sexual connotations which had long accompanied the word are made explicit in
1036:"C'est que l'art est la grande excuse à toutes les actions au délà du vulgaire; c'est que l'art purifie tout, même cet abandon qu'une pauvre fille fait de son corps." in Jules Janin, "La grisette" in
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importunity—so devoted to their poverty-stricken students of the Latin
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743:Idealized portrayal of a 19th-century grisette by
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1027:, Brown University, 2004. Retrieved 9 March 2008.
158:below.) The grisette also makes an appearance in
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985:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
941:, Volume 12: Verses from the Oldest Portfolio.
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144:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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620:of bohemian Paris, most notably in those by
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1228:The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
1066:, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), pp. 52–79.
939:The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
224:In the first quarter of the 19th century,
827:All, all returned, more sweet, more fair;
572:"Mimi Pinson" 1846: a musical setting by
504:1980 (English Version, 1985): musical by
1293:'Kindly Laws make "Mimi Pinson" Unhappy'
973:, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943, p. 76.
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715:Shreds of wit, and senseless rhymes,
709:With old scraps from plays exploded;
556:Georgette, Gabriella and Lolette in
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1279:France in the Age of Les Miserables
1135:The World of James McNeill Whistler
1098:Capturing Modern Life: The Grisette
918:The Grisette as the Female Bohemian
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1316:The Illuminated Magazine
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1267:'Grisettes'
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787:La Grisette
756:La Grisette
662:la tigresse
618:caricatures
547:Franz Lehár
498:Fantine in
427:Mimì Pinson
377:Mimi Pinson
283:George Sand
273:Victor Hugo
246:Jules Janin
33:La Grisette
1369:Categories
856:Mark Twain
559:La rondine
475:La rondine
459:Louise in
365:Hohenstein
259:Eugene Sue
915:cited in
668:In poetry
481:Ninon in
472:Magda in
414:La bohème
393:La bohème
360:La bohème
342:La bohème
187:courtesan
150:In 1730,
103:Webster's
94:millinery
42:The word
1358:grisette
1283:Archived
1270:Archived
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1082:Archived
954:Archived
922:Archived
888:See also
858:'s 1869
650:Whistler
611:Whistler
489:operetta
238:mistress
230:bohemian
226:grisette
48:grizette
44:grisette
753:elegiac
626:Gavarni
622:Daumier
607:Fumette
567:In song
381:musical
337:Puccini
269:Fantine
1326:Horace
1007:Mosaic
791:(1836)
764:Boston
635:Trilby
598:In art
487:1930:
462:Louise
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315:Trilby
301:novel
287:Horace
267:, as
139:Sterne
64:French
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398:opera
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