A Thousand and One Secrets of Parisian Nights

One late evening, bored, five whimsical socialite girls decided to have tea in the company of… the Devil himself. The Devil did not appear at their ritual summons, and then the most desperate of the gathered, Jeanne d'Armailhac, offered the unclean… herself. Immediately, a servant announced the arrival of the Marquis of Satan. An incredible handsome man, he drank a cup of tea in the company of frightened girls and left, promising Jeanne that he would appear to her every midnight. It is not hard to guess that the marquis kept his promise and even exceeded it by falling in love with the capricious beauty…
The Parisian demi-monde lives and breathes passions, and in such an atmosphere only vices thrive – isn’t that why the devil appeared precisely in Paris at the end of the 19th century? Indeed, the morals of the beautiful Parisian women, whom he studied carefully for a thousand and one nights, even amazed him…
Created by the French writer Arsen Gusse, whom Émile Zola called “one of the great oaks of the romantic forest,” this novel was hugely popular in Russia. It was written in 1875 and began to be sold in Moscow in 1877!