About the book: 1974 / Guys! The writer Alexander Voinov was in Paris. He visited the working-class suburb of Choisy-le-Roi and saw how the working people of France lived. There he met the girl whose fate is described in this story. Of course, the image of the little Parisian woman became for the writer only a prototype of his heroine Madeleine, but many of the events in which she was a participant were taken from life. The heroes of the story are your peers, schoolchildren in France and the Soviet Union.