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As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on...
COUNT D'ORGEL is a study of a three-sided relationship set in Parisian society affter the First World War. Count Anne d'Orgel and his wife Maliant befriend the young Francois de Seryeuse, and find that their marriage is alternately qualified and...
Now in paper, this is Jean Cocteau's first novel (1921). Jacques Forestier is a parasite who responds readily to both sexes. He comes to Paris to study but ends up indulging himself in a life of dissipation, culminating in a doomed love affair...