On a dare from her publisher, French reporter Maryse Choisy took on the entrenched vice interests of Paris single-handed, and risked her reputation, her safety — at times her life — to gather the material for this fascinating, uncensored book. Here is the real inside story of the world of the Parisian prostitute and those who pay her and prey on her — the madams, the pimps, and the customers, all the night people of Paris. Maryse Choisy says: "I tried to see prostitution through new eyes. This was the first time a woman dared to tell her sisters what their husbands and sons did in those places not mentioned in polite society. To express dirt takes dirty words. My style caused a scandal, yet it was the only style fitted to the struggle against the bordello." Bought by the millions and translated into 22 languages, A Month Among the Girls has become and international best seller. This milestone in the annals of crusading journalism could rightly be called "the book that closed the brothels of Paris."