Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens pp Cite as. In , her mother moved to Paris, taking Marthe with her and separating her from her maternal grandmother, who was an important source of support. Shortly after the marriage, Marthe was left alone in their apartment with no money or support, having no idea where her mother and stepfather had gone or when they would return.
The abandoned Marthe was forced to go out in search of both money and companionship, and was drawn to the dance hall culture of interwar Paris. Here she met men and women who suggested that she sell sex, and soon she was working as a prostitute in a provincial French brothel, just before her sixteenth birthday.
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