Toulouse, Julia Printing House, January 20, 1953, 28 pages, 120 copies
An eighteen-page fantasy tale based on a screenplay by Jean Lakanal, with the remaining ten pages devoted to titles, flyleaves, quotations, etc. The plot is of only moderate interest, vacillating between various influences (Poe, Nerval, etc.) to superficially address a few metaphysical questions.
Françoise, whose writing seems constrained, attempts to make this herbal tea palatable with a few pretty metaphors and other devices, but since she herself is not convinced, I doubt that the reader will be either…