The numbers were translated into English to ensure that foreign tourists would be able to find the brothel and as a password for French people.

Opened in 1924, the "One-Two-Two" closed its doors in 1946 when the Loi Marthe Richard prohibited brothels in France.

She was replaced by Georgette Pélagie, known as Fabienne, a young woman who became sub-mistress at the age of 21 years.

Marcel Jamet married her in 1942 and hosted an extraordinary feast for the 56 distinguished guests, who consumed 34 magnums of champagne and 176 bottles.

The girls of the establishment had to have four sex-sessions a day at twenty francs each, excluding tips, and two sessions on Sundays.

Otto Brandl, one of the main officers of the Abwehr in France after September 1940, was involved in the Parisian black market.

[3] Also involved were "Monsieur Michel" (Mandel Szkolnikoff), the biggest supplier of the Germans, and "Joseph" (Joseph Joanovici), a former Romanian-born scavenger who had the status of "economically valuable Jew", members of the French Gestapo (nicknamed "Carlingue" or Fuselage in French) and members of the Pierre Bonny and Henri Lafont criminal gang.

[3] One-Two-Two was frequented by high society; people went to be seen there (some men going there only for dining with their companion) and to enjoy the charms of its "boarders."