Berthe de Courrière
Berthe de Courrière | |
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Born | Caroline Louise Victoire Courrière June , 1852 |
Died | June 14, 1916 Paris, France | (aged 63–64)
Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | artists' model, demimondaine |
Berthe de Courrière (June 1852, Lille[1] – 14 June 1916,[1] Paris) was a French artists' model and demimondaine. She was the mistress, model, and heir of the sculptor and painter Auguste Clésinger.
Life
Born Caroline Louise Victoire Courrière in June 1852 in Lille, de Courrière set out for Paris at age 20 and first became the mistress of General
In 1886, she met
Occultism
de Courrière was interested in
de Courrière was, it seems, quite unbalanced. She had to be interned a second time in Brussels in 1906,[2] and she wrote a violent booklet, Nero Prince of Science,[6] against Jean-Martin Charcot, which is characteristic of the hatred that patients sometimes devote to their psychiatrist.
She had a morbid passion for
As a practitioner of the cult of Satan, her vault in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise still attracts lovers of black masses.[8]
In popular culture
In 1889, Gourmont presented de Courrière to Joris-Karl Huysmans who based the character of Mme Hyacinthe Chantelouve in his novel Là-Bas (1891) on her.[9][10]
Gourmont based his novels Sixtine, roman de la vie cérébrale (1890)[11] and Le Fantôme (1893), both tales of religio-sadistic eroticism, on de Courrière.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Berthe de Courrière - Les Amateurs de Remy de Gourmont". www.remydegourmont.org (in French). Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "The Flower of Evil: Berthe de Courrière, Satanic Woman of Bohemian Paris". LeDespencer.com. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "Sixtine - Les Amateurs de Remy de Gourmont". www.remydegourmont.org (in French). Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ Introvigne 2016, p. 142.
- ^ Huysmans 1977, p. 183.
- ^ Full text: "Néron, Prince de la Science". baillement.com. 21 October 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- ^ Faxneld 2017, p. 312.
- ^ Brasey & Brasey 2011, p. 207.
- ^ Baldick 1975, p. 171.
- ^ Levi1992, p. 316.
- ^ Gillybœuf, Thierry. "Remy de Gourmont". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 9 February 2019.
Bibliography
- Baldick, Robert (1975). La vie de J. K. Huysmans (in French). Denoël.
- Brasey, Stéphanie; ISBN 9782842284770.
- Faxneld, Per (2017). Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-century Culture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190664473.
- Gillyboeuf, Thierry, ed. (2016). Berthe de Courrière (in French). CARGO-Cercle des amateurs de Remy de Gourmont. ISBN 9782956063704.
- ISBN 9782600025188.
- ISBN 9789004244962.
- Levi, Anthony (1992). Guide to French literature: 1789 to the present. St. James Press. ISBN 9781558620865.
External links
- Media related to Berthe de Courrière at Wikimedia Commons