Jeanne Duval

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Jeanne Duval was a second-tier mulatto actress, and maintained a lifelong romantic association with French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. Poems which are dedicated to her or pay her homage are: 'Le Balcon', 'Parfum Exotique', 'La Chevelure', 'Le Serpent qui Danse', and 'Une charogne'. She lived at 6, rue de la Femme-sans-tête (Street of the Headless Woman), near the hôtel Pimodan.

Jeanne Duval also served as a main character in Caribbean Author, Nalo Hopkinson's, Salt Roads a work of historic fiction.

In addition, she is the inspiration for a song called "Street of Roses" (Улица Роз) from then-Soviet heavy metal band Aria (Ария), on their 1987 release "Asphalt Hero" (Герой Асфальта).

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