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 ::I've deleted some ""What Links Here"" references to Cora Pearl. However, in so doing I noticed that there is a 1933 biography of her  and a 1941 film based on her life . 
 ::I don't think the material I deleted was very useful to Wikipedia. But I think we should pause before concluding that she is fictional. Unless there is a very elaborate hoax going on, it doesn't look like she is.   "