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=== Interactions with women === In addition to his growing alcoholism, Toulouse-Lautrec also visited prostitutes.<ref name="wittels" /> He was fascinated by their lifestyle as well as that of the "urban underclass", and he incorporated those characters into his paintings.<ref>{{cite book |title=Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00powe |url-access=limited |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-313-30422-4 |editor1=Powell, John |page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00powe/page/n433 417] |editor2=Blakeley, Derek W. |editor3=Powell, Tessa}}</ref> Fellow painter [[Édouard Vuillard]] later said that while Toulouse-Lautrec did engage in sex with prostitutes, "the real reasons for his behaviour were moral ones ... Lautrec was too proud to submit to his lot, as a physical freak, an aristocrat cut off from his kind by his grotesque appearance. He found an affinity between his condition and the moral penury of the prostitute."<ref>{{harv|Toulouse-Lautrec, Donson|1982|p=XIV}}</ref> The prostitutes inspired Toulouse-Lautrec. He would frequently visit a brothel located in Rue d'Amboise, where he had a favourite called Mireille.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Toulouse Lautrec|last=Neret|first=Gilles|publisher=Taschen|year=1999|isbn=3-8228-6524-9|location=Germany|pages=134–135}}</ref> He created about a hundred drawings and fifty paintings inspired by the life of these women. In 1892 and 1893, he created a series of two women in bed together called ''[[Le Lit (Toulouse-Lautrec)|Le Lit]]'', and in 1894 he painted {{ill|Salón de la Rue des Moulins|it|Al Salon di rue des Moulins|nl|De Salon in de rue des Moulins|italic=yes}} from memory in his studio.<ref name=":0" /> Toulouse-Lautrec declared, "A model is always a stuffed doll, but these women are alive. I wouldn't venture to pay them the hundred [[French sol|sous]] to sit for me, and God knows whether they would be worth it. They stretch out on the sofas like animals, make no demand and they are not in the least bit conceited." He was well appreciated by the women, saying, "I have found girls of my own size! Nowhere else do I feel so much at home."<ref name=":0" />
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