Category: Europe

Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.

Ninon de Lenclos. The Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century.

Ninon, Lenclos, Lanclos, French author, courtesan, patron, arts,

Ninon de L’Enclos was a French liberal and educated intellectual, feminist, writer (La coquette vengée “The Flirt Avenged”) and lover of many also famous contemporaries. She was one of the outstanding women of the ancien regime, the participation in their Jours was a great society honor.