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Méry Laurent, born Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot (b. 29 April 1849, Nancy- d. 26 November 1900), was a demi-mondaine (courtesan) and the muse of several Parisian artists. She used to run her own “salon” where she hosted many French (and even American) writers and painters of her time: Stéphane Mallarmé, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, François Coppée, or even Henri Gervex, James Whistler an Édouard Manet[1].