Sunday, November 11, 2007

Parisian Personals Ads

I don't know when I imagined that the trend of personals ads started, but I had no clue that it went back as far as World War I.


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It's November 11, so in honor of those poilus and their demoiselles, here's a bit of the section from La Vie Parisienne dated 1916.

Who knows if they all made it to their rendezvous.

1 comment:

Fifi Flowers said...

Ooooh la la... risqué has been around FOREVER!!! Merci for sharing this with moi!

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