adrienne monnier rejected the book after cahun presented to her in 1928 after monnier had recommended her write a confessional. cahun responded: ""you have told me to write a confession because you know only too well that this is currently the only literary task that might seem to me first and foremost realizable, where i feel at ease, permit myself a direct link, contact with the real world, with the facts.""in may 1930, cahun succeeded in publication despite adrienne's rejection with a limited edition of 500 by the anti-nazi publication house, the same publisher of max ernst's "femme 100 tétes ." the two artist's were likely aware of each other's work as ernst's book, too, included photomontage.