Lorrain J. The Bottom of Paris. Per. from French O. Lenova. Ill. L. Courboulet, J. Bottini. - B. m.: Salamandra P.V.V., 2021. - 227 pp., illus. The novel “The Bottom of Paris” (originally “Philibert’s Establishment”, 1904) paints a large-scale and, according to experts on the subject, a very accurate panorama of prostitution and brothel houses in Paris and the French provinces of the early twentieth century. At the same time, this book is a full-fledged “criminal novel” about the cruel morals of the Parisian Apaches. Its author, Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) - poet, writer, self-proclaimed dandy, libertine, brawler, ethereal man and chronicler of Paris of the "Belle Epoque" - was hardly not the most odious French decadent. As the science fiction writer, translator and researcher of decadence B. Stableford noted, “no one else has embodied in such a direct and fatal way all the absurdity and pomp, all the paradoxes and perversions of the decadent style and way of life.” The novel, published in the “Dark Passions” series, is the third and final volume of the collected works of J. Lorrain, published by Salamandra P.V.V. - the first significant Russian publication of the writer’s works since pre-revolutionary times. The first two volumes of the collection were published as non-serial publications in 2017.