# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valtesse-de-la-bigne
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:19:07.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valtesse-de-la-bigne"
name: "Valtesse de la Bigne"
slug: "valtesse-de-la-bigne"
description: "Émilie-Louise Delabigne, known as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne, was an elite French courtesan and demi-mondaine who rose through the social ranks to mix with Paris's most glamorous elite. Although born to a working-class family in Paris, she built a life for herself and became a muse to artists like Henri Gervex, Édouard Manet, as well as novelist Émile Zola. Beyond her career as a courtesan, she was also an actress, an art collector, and salonnière."
tagline: "French stage actor and writer (1848–1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henri_Gervex_Portrait_Mlle_Valtesse_de_la_Bigne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1848-07-13"
deathDate: "1910-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.12
  momentum:             0.4563492063492063
  historical:           11.19024933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_la_Bigne"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "فالتيز ديه لا بيني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "فالتيز ديه لا بينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_La_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de La Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_la_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de la Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_La_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de La Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_La_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de La Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_la_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de la Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_La_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de La Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_La_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de La Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valtesse_de_La_Bigne"
    title: "Valtesse de La Bigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%9B%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Вальтесс де Ла Бинь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie-Louise_Delabigne"
    title: "Émilie-Louise Delabigne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274074"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump