La Fleur blanche was a famous maison close brothel in the city of Paris , located at 6 rue des Moulins in the 1st Arrondissement. The property was also known as rue des Moulins and was famous for its torture room. The building was originally the home of a regency financier, and became a brothel in during the Second Empire. It was one of the most luxurious brothels in Paris. The brothel was known for its extremely lavish bedrooms, each one having its own theme; for example, one was in a Moorish style, another was ducal.
During the German occupation , La Fleur blanche, like several other luxury Parisian brothels, was requisitioned for the use of German officers, in order to prevent their contacts with the local population. The health services of the Wehrmacht were responsible for organizing the sanitary control of these establishments. Captain Haucke, commissioner of Geheime Feldpolizei, was responsible for managing prostitution in Paris.
In , after the adoption of the " Loi Marthe Richard ", the brothel was closed. La Fleur blanche was notably frequented by Toulouse-Lautrec where he had a room, according to legend , [ 3 ] He was called The Coffee Pot by the girls due to his small size. The artist painted Griserie the beautiful stranger on a wall in the brothel. He also painted the prostitutes in the "Rue des Moulins" at the time of a medical inspection of which they were obliged to have regularly. In Medical Inspection rue des Moulins , two girls raise their shifts in preparation for the examination.
A physician was sent to perform these weekly medical examination in deplorable conditions of hygiene, examining them with a disposable non-disinfected speculum. La Fleur blanche contained a lavishly carved mahogany bed. Instead, it ended up in La Fleur blanche. An exceptional carved mahogany bed in the form of a shell-shaped vessel upon which a two-tailed figure of mermaid, carved in the round, is seated, her right arm upraised; the shell with ribbed mouldings and carved with scrolls and stylised shells, two swans guiding the boat on each side cm.
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