Wednesday, November 30, 2005
#2: Les femmes de la Rue Pute-y-Muse
Today I salute the women who walked the streets named "Whore-Hides-Here" and "Scabby Whore" (Rue Pute-y-Muse and Impasse Putigneaux, respectively) in 13th and 14th century Paris. These philanthropic women requested to finance a stained glass window in Notre Dame (as had other tradesmen and tradeswomen), but the bishop refused their money. Perhaps he couldn't bear the thought of Church money being laundered through prostitutes only to return once more to Church coffers?
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It's funny: now that whole area bounded by Rue Scabby Whore, Pustulent Genital Sore Boulevard, and Mononuclear Cellular Inflammatory Response in Terminal Syphilitic Brain Lesions Avenue is really ritzy nowadays, isn't it?
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