tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post4544634076908651557..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: the golden hairs of her armpits...Roger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-31438646224524451332007-04-03T16:09:00.000+02:002007-04-03T16:09:00.000+02:00Man, the awesome posts I miss being hipdeep in sem...Man, the awesome posts I miss being hipdeep in semester-end papers. :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-29533669958061196732007-04-02T05:00:00.000+02:002007-04-02T05:00:00.000+02:00As a ps - It isn't that Mery is really La Belle He...As a ps - It isn't that Mery is really La Belle Helene. Just the image works - Helene was played by Heloise Schneider. About which, there is a story. Zola, working on Nana, was pestering his arty friends to take him to see the great prostitutes/courtesan/actresses of the second empire. So Renoir takes him to see Schneider. And, being a playful type, he says, lets see if you still got em. So Schneider takes off her blouse and, to the puritanical Zola's horror, sticks her breasts in his face. He runs out of the house, followed by the laughter of Renoir and Ms. Schneider - who, as Offenbach says in his memoirs, always had a theatrical air.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.com