Part of book project. This was fun. It is late-ish (1936) and very political. Spoiler warning. The first part tells of a woman who is a courtesan, basically, immoral and living off men with her beauty & sex. The rest of the book tells of a woman who is part of the moneyed class, but barely, and who is drawn to anarchists & then to socialism. The final few pages are a paean to Clara Zetkin and the women of the future (socialist) world. It is very detailed about France from 1903 to 1912, ending at the Congress of Basel in November 1912; and many of the references to French politics of the time were not clear to me & I couldn't follow some of the aspects of the plot that depended on them.