"[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 and Alfred de Musset's Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess, classic erotic tales of pleasure and excess.