The story of Histoire is stunningly smutty even today: a lonely older man driving his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost (incidentally the same model Gainsbourg owned) hits a young English girl named Melody (guess who) riding her bicycle, falls in love with her instantly, proceeds to deflower her in a brothel, lets her get on a plane back to England which crashes due to his sabotage and kills her, at which point the man spirits away to New Guinea to worship his eternal love with the "Cargo Culte.

In an interview to Nancy Dillon of The News, the Californian university student, who's auctioning her virginity to pay for a masters degree, says that she'd want Kim to deflower her.

A translation of his sire L'Enjouleur reveals the word to mean one who wheedles or coaxes, talents that might be useful when attempting to seduce - or perhaps deflower - a bed-shy individual.