2003 : Seppuku ou le roman à clefs

Paris, Les Editions du Sud, 345 pages This biographical novel begins with a 3-page introduction, Le 19ème siècle et le triomphe de la bourgeoisie, which ends as follows: “Certainly, from 1830 to the first decades of our 20th century, this was the golden age of the bourgeoisie, with that unpleasant nightmare of the Commune, a…

Paris, Vernal/Philippe Lebaud, 234 pages. For a long time, the term “adventuress” was reserved for what were known as “demi-mondaines”—that is, women who, viewing marriage as a “wholesale trade,” preferred the “retail trade” to escape a fate of submission and childbearing. This is not the type of adventuress we’re talking about here. Françoise gives us…