Snapshots of History Season 1 Episode 13 Mr. X - A Frenchman in the Brothels

The wealth of photographs accredited to a certain Mr X provides an astonishing record of Paris in the roaring twenties. This twenty-year-old middle-class man from Normandy discovered 'erotic Paris' guided by a young Russian immigrant with whom he'd shared time in the trenches of Verdun. The myth of roaring twenties Paris, capital of libertinage, and the 'little women of Pigalle' was at its peak.