Tart with a Heart Who Became the Little 'Pearl' of Plymouth ; Simon Parker Meets a Couple From Cornwall Who Are Hoping to Gain Greater Recognition for the 'Pearl of Plymouth'

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SHE was born in the backstreets of Stonehouse and went on to become one of the richest women in France - yet Cora Pearl rarely appears in the roll-call of Plymouth's great and good.

Perhaps the reason for her relative anonymity is that it is not considered appropriate, even in 2009, to honour a woman who made her fortune by providing sexual favours to royalty.

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Tart with a Heart Who Became the Little 'Pearl' of Plymouth ; Simon Parker Meets a Couple From Cornwall Who Are Hoping to Gain Greater Recognition for the 'Pearl of Plymouth'

However, Cora was more than just a high-class prostitute. A woman of great entrepreneurial prowess, she possessed a strong sense of humanity - a trait she proved by caring for the sick, wounded and dying throughout the terrible days of the Siege of Paris.

Plymouth-born couple George and Iris Williams, who now live over the water at Torpoint, have studied Cora's life and times in ...

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