Belle Epoque Postcards ~ Artists ~ La Belle Otéro

Carolina Otéro - La Belle Otéro
(Agustina Otéro Iglesias)

* November 4th 1868, Valga / Pontevedro (Spain)
† April, 10th 1965, Nizza (France)

La Belle Otéro, a Spanish dancer, actress and courtesan of the Belle Epoque, was for sure one of the most notorious women in Europe's high society. She had numerous liaisons to royals and aristocrats. Together with Liane de Pougy and Emilienne d'Alençon they were known as "Les Grandes Trois" (Courtesans). Probably she was also one of the most photographed women of the Belle Epoque, next to Lina Cavalieri and Cléo de Mérode. She was especially famous for her extraordinary and luxurious jewelry. After the Belle Epoque her glory declined and she lost huge amounts of money with gambling and finished her life in quite modest circumstances at Nizza, where she died at age 96.

Bibliography:

• Otero, Carolina
  La Mia Vita
  Studio Editoriale Italiano, 1944
  (spanish edition: Edicións Xerais De Galicia)

• Lewis, Arthur H.
  La Belle Otero
  Trident Press, New York 1967

• Castle, Charles
  La Belle Otero - The last great courtesan
  M. Joseph, 1981
  (french edition: Belfond, 1984)

• Posadas, Carmen
  La Belle Otero
  Editorial Planeta, 2001
  (german edition: Europa-Verlag, Hamburg/Wien 2003
  

• Carbonel, Marie-Hélène ; Figuero, Javier
  La verible biographie de La Belle Otero et de la Belle Epoque
  Fayard, 2003
  

• Grillandi, Massimo
  La Belle Otero
  Ed. Rusconi, 1980

• Martinez, Carlos Diaz ; Seoane, Luis
  La Belle Otero: Postenis, Postales, Cartes Postales, Postcards

• La Belle Otéro sous l'objectif de Reutlinger
  Editions du Compas, Monaco 2005

• Guigon, Catherine
  Les Cocottes - Reines du Paris 1900
  Parigramme, Paris 2012

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Belle_Otero

• https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com
  /2012/03/30/la-belle-otero/

• https://www.histoire-image.org/fr/etudes/belle-otero-embleme-belle-epoque