Garçonne

See also: Garçonne

Garçonne is a novel published in 1922 by Victor Margueritte: an young woman learning that the her been engaged horn decides to lead to its tower a free life, with multiple partners.

Although the topic does not surprise especially today, he was regarded at the time as shocking, at a point such as Victor Margueritte lives himself to withdraw his Légion of honor following the caused scandal: the book left in France being hardly raised of the Great War, and where existed a heavy demographic imbalance (approximately 10%) between the two sexes, unbalances likely to create some temptations so much in husbands more solicited in woman alones.

The difference of the reactions caused by this book formerly and nowadays shows us once again as manners changed.