The Coming of Age of Francoise Cocteau

Since the discovery, during the early 1920's, of this journal-the diary, really, of an "upper class" young girl's physical subjugation and sexual humiliation at the hands of the women who staffed an exclusive finishing school in England-it has been determined that its author, Aime Von Rod, and its main character, Francoise Cocteau, are one and the same person. Sent by her mother and stepfather to "Birchtree Villa, " Francoise-one of eight pubescent girls ranging in age from thirteen to seventeen-falls easy victim to the sensuous whims of the lithe, strong, severely beautiful "teachers" whose rampant passions, furiously unleashed in the name of "Correction" and "Training, " transform their sexually aroused "pupils" from demure debutantes to nymphomaniacal demons.