Maryse Choisy

After Peladan I discovered that it was dangerous to associate with alchemists and groups of occultists without being attached to some true and great Church.

[citation needed] Her most controversial work was Un mois chez les filles which literally means 'A month among the girls' however when it was published in 1961 in English in the United States the titled changed to Psychoanalysis of the Prostitute.

Choisy attempted to characterise sex workers as more human than in previous literature and avoided "moralising or...aestheticism".

[1] She also wrote a book called Un mois chez les Hommes (A Month With the Guys) about infiltrating the all-male monastic community of Mount Athos.

She received multiple awards in her lifetime including the National Order of Merit, a silver medal of Arts, Lettres, et Sciences, and the Lamennais Prize in 1967.