A real individual, Clement Village, whose story is also related in this work, formed the basis for a character in this novel named Seck Gorgui.
Two characters in this work attend a Mass at La Madeleine as fervent believers, but one recites the Lord's Prayer as "Our Mother which art in heaven."  That character is later accosted by police while drunkenly singing a Veni Creator in the middle of the Boulevard de Clichy, though she makes sexual advances on the police during the arrest. A real individual, Clement Village, whose story is also related in this work, formed the basis for a character in this novel named Seck Gorgui. In this novel, one man's lovemaking is compared to a "six-day bicycle race," and in another scene, the main character is beaten by her rival Mimosa. (*) This novel's title character is eventually executed for the murder of an old man, and the main character tricks a little girl into falling to her death before dying in a pool of her own excrement in the presence of her mother Ernestine. This novel is dedicated to Maurice Pilorge and various other murderers, and largely concerns the relationship between Darling Daintyfoot, the title character, and Louis Culafroy, also known as the transvestite Divine. For 10 points, identify this novel described by Sartre as an "epic of masturbation," the most famous work by Jean Genet.
Two characters in this work attend a Mass at La Madeleine as fervent believers, but one recites the Lord's Prayer as "Our Mother which art in heaven."  
Our Lady of the Flowers [or Notre-Dame des Fleurs]