It is based on Léo Lévesque's collection of prison stories Contes en coup de poing.
He spent 25 years in prison, and has written five collections of prison stories based on his experience, of which Contes en coups de poing was the basis of the 2002 movie Histoire de Pen.
pen name | Jean-Marie Le Pen | Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Histoire du soldat | Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle | Une sale histoire | Pen | pen | Histoire de ma vie | PEN International | PEN American Center | Société de l'histoire de France | Poisoned Pen Press | Pen name | Pen Mar, Pennsylvania | Pen Mar | PEN/Malamud Award | Pen Hadow | Pen computing | PEN Center USA | PEN | Museum d'histoire naturelle | May Pen | Marine Le Pen | L'Histoire du soldat | Histoire littéraire de la France | Histoire de Melody Nelson | ballpoint pen | Yeovil Pen Mill railway station | Victorine Meurent, ''Palm Sunday'', c. 1880s, is the only surviving example of her work (Musée Municipal d'Art et d'Histoire de Colombes |