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" John Baxter is] a man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick." -- Newsday A "flip book" featuring two classic novels of sexual exploration, translated from French by John Baxter ( Immoveable Feast, We'll Always Have Paris ): Octave Mirbeau's The Diary of a Chambermaid... Read Full Overview

A French chambermaid, who has served in Paris, in the houses of the nobility, the bourgeois, and professional people, finally enters the service of a rich couple living in the country, and there begins to keep a diary. In describing the events of her daily life and the people... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: A Chambermaid's Diary by Octave Mirbeau

Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre est un roman de l'�����crivain fran�����ais Octave Mirbeau, publi����� en 1900. L'histoire suit les aventures de C�����lestine,... Read Full Overview

Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre est un roman de l'�����crivain fran�����ais Octave Mirbeau, publi����� en 1900. L'histoire est racont�����e... Read Full Overview

C lestine entre dans sa nouvelle place de femme de chambre, en province, au service de M. et Mme Lanlaire et aux c t s de la cuisini re Marianne et du palefrenier Joseph. Elle se souvient de ses anciens ma tres, comme ce vieillard fascin par les bottines, ou cette vieille femme... Read Full Overview

Le Journal D'Une Femme De Chambre est un roman de l'auteur fran�����ais Octave Mirbeau, publi����� en 1900. L'histoire suit une femme de chambre nomm�����e C�����lestine,... Read Full Overview

For there is not a door, not a closet, not a drawer, not a bottle, not an article, that does not cry out to us: "Thief thief thief " And also the continuous vexation caused by that terrible inequality, that frightful disproportion in our destinies, which, in spite... Read Full Overview