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05-03-2016, 08:45 PM
The mysterious selfie queen of Paris high society
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c. 1867
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When she first visited the photography studio of Mayer & Pierson in 1856, Virginia Oldoini had already become **torious in Paris society. Married at 17 to Italian Count Francesco Verasis di Castiglione, she had been dis*****ed to Paris to convince Napoleon III to support Italian unification — instead, she promptly became his mistress.
Their dalliance was brief but helped establish her reputation as a beautiful and enigmatic seductress
She was enthralled with the study of her own beauty, and collaborated with photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson on over 400 self-portraits Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/virginia-oldoini/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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c. 1867
Image: ©Rue des Archives/PVDE/Getty Images
When she first visited the photography studio of Mayer & Pierson in 1856, Virginia Oldoini had already become **torious in Paris society. Married at 17 to Italian Count Francesco Verasis di Castiglione, she had been dis*****ed to Paris to convince Napoleon III to support Italian unification — instead, she promptly became his mistress.
Their dalliance was brief but helped establish her reputation as a beautiful and enigmatic seductress
She was enthralled with the study of her own beauty, and collaborated with photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson on over 400 self-portraits Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/virginia-oldoini/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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