 La Païva

Esther Lachmann ((), better known as La Païva (); 7 May 181921 January 1884) was the most famous of the 19th-century French courtesans.A notable investor and architecture patron, and a collector of jewels, she had a personality so hard-bitten that she was described as the "one great courtesan who appears to have had no redeeming feature".