Her autobiography describes intimate details of her life living as a woman during the Second French Empire and the beginning of La Belle Époque.

[3] She began presenting as a woman in her teenage years and going by the name Pauline, later becoming a mistress of a man who was a member of the French nobility and the son of a marquis.

[1] The autobiography details her life in Paris living as a woman throughout the Second French Empire and the beginning of La Belle Époque.

"[1] She documented her coming out process to her mother, who welcomed her as a daughter, and wrote about the mutual support that the filles and tribade sisters provided each other.

[1] A dilettante artist, she illustrated her autobiography with drawings of herself and her contemporaries, including a fellow fille known as La Charles and a tribade known as B.