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Love chair

The love chair (French: siège d'amour) was a device created by a French furniture manufacturer to allow the corpulent British King Edward VII to have sex with two women simultaneously while protecting them from being crushed by his weight. History King Edward was known for his affairs with the most famous French aristocrats, prostitutes, actresses and cancan dancers; his father, on learning of his licentiousness, described him as "depraved". He was a regular visitor to the most exquisite and lavish bordello of Victorian Paris, Le Chabanais, where the chair, designed specifically to cater for his copulatory tastes, was installed. Created by furniture manufacturer Soubrier, it was reported in 2018 as being owned by the Soubrier family and it was included in an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in 2015. At least three versions of the chair are known to exist including the original owned by the Soubrier family. Two...

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