Gustave Flaubert et Guy de Maupassant Deux générations littéraires soumises au tabou de la vie intime des femmes et à son traitement judiciaire

Their treatment of a “taboo” subject, the female privacy (love life and sexuality), leads Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant to court actions. Madame Bovary and Au bord de l’eau are prosecuted for affront to public decency. To face up to the judiciary system during two key-moments of the French political history in the second nineteenth century, the two normans choose a similar.