The Coming of Age of Francoise Cocteau

Since the discovery, during the early 1920's, of this journal—the diary, really, of an “upper class” young girl's physical subjugation and sexual humiliation at the hands of the women who staffed an exclusive finishing school in England—it has been determined that its author, Aime Von Rod, and its main character, Francoise Cocteau, are one and the same person. Sent by her mother and stepfather to “Birchtree Villa,”

Francoise—one of eight pubescent girls ranging in age from thirteen to seventeen—falls easy victim to the sensuous whims of the lithe, strong, severely beautiful “teachers” whose rampant passions, furiously unleashed in the name of “Correction” and “Training,” transform their sexually aroused “pupils” from demure debutantes to nymphomaniacal demons.