Saint-Germain-des-Pres by John Baxter

Author:John Baxter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Businessmen used brothels as a kind of club, socializing with the women without necessarily having sex. The geisha houses of Japan and “key clubs” of Western cities in the 1960s offered the same relaxed and slightly disreputable atmosphere that encouraged plain speaking. Describing Madame Tellier’s house, Maupassant, a sexual athlete and no stranger to bordels, sketched some typical clients.

They went there every evening about eleven o’clock, just as they would go to the club. Six or eight of them; always the same set, not fast men, but respectable tradesmen, and young men in government or some other employ, and they would drink their Chartreuse, and laugh with the girls, or else talk seriously with Madame Tellier, whom everybody respected, and then they would go home at twelve o’clock! The younger men would sometimes stay later.

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