Confessions D'Amour Author:Anne-Marie Villefranche 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 ... more »51; but only until a betrayal can be turned to advantage. Confessions dAmour 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 cousins 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)« less