A novel set in the 1910s and the Montmartre district of Paris. After a man betrays a group of sex workers and imprisons one of them—Bamboo, the male lover of Jésus the Quail—the group falls into a series of betrayals and short-lived romances. Despite being named after Jésus, the novel primarily focuses on his heterosexual and female co-worker, Fernande.

Also see:

• Context, information, illustrations, and variant editions at Bibliothèque Gay in three posts: one, two, three.
• Chaslaborde
• Culture et Debats

Editions

• Le Mercure de France (Jan-Feb 1914) Serialized in two parts.
• Paris : Mercure de France (1914) Two parts in one volume.
• Le Mercure de France (Mar 1918) Serialized an additional third part named Les Malheurs de Fernande in two issues.
• Paris : Mercure de France (1914) Les Malheurs de Fernande in one volume.
• Chez Ronald Davis & Cie (1920) 756 copies. Omnibus of all three parts. Three engravings in Chas Laborde. Several chapters of Les Malheurs de Fernande are removed.
• Paris : Aux Éditions de l'Estampe (1925) 272 copies. With 20 etchings by Auguste Brouet.
• Paris : À la Cité des Books (1927) Revised edition. Seems to be the text referenced for future editions.
• Berkley (1960) the 1920 English edition translated by Lowell Blair as Frenzy.