Les Bonnes
Genet loosely based his play on the infamous sisters Christine and Léa Papin, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. In an introduction written for "The Maids", Jean-Paul Sartre quotes a line from Genet's novel "Our Lady of the Flowers" in which a character muses that if he had a play written for women he'd cast adolescent boys in the parts. Sartre then speculates on having this idea applied to "The Maids".