Confessions D’Amour

Anne-Marie Villefranche invites the reader to enter an intoxicating world where men and women arrange their love affairs with skill and style; a culmination of comically indecent stories about her friends in 1920s Paris. This is a world where illicit encounters are as smooth as a silk stocking, and where sexual secrets are kept in confidence — but only until a betrayal can be turned to advantage. Confessions d’Amour follows the adventures of Gabrielle de Michoux, a beautiful young widow who contrives to be maintained in luxury by a succession of well-to-do men; Marcel Chalon, ready for any adventure as long as he can go home to Mama afterward; Armand Budin, who plunges into a passionate love affair with his cousin’s estranged wife, Madeleine Beauvais; and Yvonne Hiver, who is married with two children while still embracing other, younger lovers. “An erotic tribute to the Paris of yesteryear that will delight modern readers.” — The Observer (London)