amant de coeur
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On this day in 1846 occurred one of the most enigmatic episodes in the brief life of the Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis – her marriage to Count Edouard de Perrégaux at the Kensington Register Office in London. Marie had met Edouard a few years previously, at a masked ball at the Paris Opera House in
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