Yvette
Plot: A naive young girl tries to kill herself when she realizes that she risks becoming a demi-mondaine like her mother, the pseudo-marquise Obardi. She survives and fall into the arms of the viveur Servigny
Viktor Tourjansky. Viktor Tourjansky was 25 in Yvette as 'Director'
Guy de Maupassant. Guy de Maupassant would have been no older than 42 in Yvette as 'Novel'