Original title: "J'ai choisi mon sexe: Confidences du peintre Michel-Marie Poulain" (I Chose My Sex: Confidences of the painter Michel-Marie Poulain)
I came across this book on the blog managed by Zagria. According to this portal, Michel-Marie Poulain (1906 – 1991) was a French performer, painter, and stained-glass artist.
"She was a senior-sergeant in the Second World War. He was captured by the Germans and interned until 1945. She self-castrated herself in 1946 and then lived increasingly as a woman.
She was a high-fashion model. She painted portraits and did stained-glass windows for churches, particularly in Abbaye de La Colle-sur-Loup and the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs in Èze. Later she opened a gallery in Cannes."