Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, ARC wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Softcover, tan wrappers with type, Advanced Reading Copy. Author is a renowned French film director as well as a screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films. This is his second book and first novel. A memoir of a Parisian gentleman's love for a prostitute pre-World War 1.