DEGAS'S "LITTLE DANCER"

BALLERINAS WENT ON STAGE AGED 13 OR 14, AND BEGAN TRAINING AT SIX OR SEVEN: THAT IS HOW THE DEBAUCHERY OF A BALZAC HEROINE BEGINS

(CORALIE IN SPLENDOR AND MISERY OF COURTESANS) 

Their scampering recalled that of rats and they were called "petits rats."

By Degas 

Notice the man on the left and the exchange of glances.

Pedophilia, publicly tolerated

At Palais-Royal, Internet, no further information

"Little dancer, 14 years old:" For Degas, the low forehead and salient jaw were monkey-like signs of degeneration and criminality:

"The vicious muzzle of this young, scarcely adolescent girl, this little flower of the gutter, imprints her face with the detestable promise of every vice."

-- Critic cited in The Painted Girls
 by Cathy Marie Buchanan, 2013, a novel about the model based on fact.

Communards say:
"...if you do not want your daughters 
to be instruments of pleasure

 for the aristocracy of wealth, 
workers arise!"

-- Paris Babylon by Rupert Christiansen, 1994

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