Monique is an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man whom her parents have forced on her. She then succumbs to all sorts of carnal temptations including a lesbian love affair with a singer. The scandal provoked by Victor Margueritte's La Gar onne (1922), here translated as The Bacheloress, led to its author having his l gion d'honneur revoked, which only propelled this novel about a brazenly independent...
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