 It was translated into French by Alexandre Lévy, (the original French text has remained undiscovered to this day), the essay was published in 1994 by Éditions Indigo and Côté Femmes and was accompanied an introduction by Pierre Michel, a professor specialising the writer Octave Mirbeau, and a preface by historian Alain Corbin.The essay was translated into English and Italian in 2005 by Bérangère de Grandpré.Bulgarian historian, Niko Nikov, discovered the essay in booklet form entitled "Любовта на продажната жена", which had been published in Plovdiv, by 'Spolouka' in 1922, in the Sofia National Library.