The only film co-directed by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Truffaut, given the opportunity by producer Pierre Braunberger to make a documentary short about the Paris floods of 1957,shot the footage but without much interest and then turned it over to his colleague Godard to make something out of it.
The quote from Charles Baudelaire, "The wet suns/ of those blurry skies/ to my mind have the same charm/ so mysterious/ as your treacherous eyes/ shining through their tears", is from L'Invitation au Voyage.
The title of the film is a play on words, an implicit reference to Histoire d'O, a famous erotic novel written by Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage) several years prior.
The Girl likens her departure to that of Arthur Gordon Pym. This is a reference to the book, 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket', the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.