The appearance of the erotic novel “Emmanuelle” caused a noisy scandal not only in literary but also in diplomatic circles. And unexpected fame fell on its author. It turned out that under the pseudonym Emmanuel Arsan was hiding the wife of an employee of the French embassy in Thailand, Louis-Jacques Rollet, who was immediately recalled from Bangkok and removed from the diplomatic service. The collapse of the career of her diplomat husband, however, only strengthened the literary success of a hitherto unknown author, whose book instantly became a bestseller. The love adventures of a young French woman in Bangkok, which form the plot of the novel, perhaps surpass in its exoticism everything that we have read so far... Delivered based on the book, the film of the same name with film star Sylvia Kristel in the title role today, like the novel “Emmanuelle,” is known all over the world.