Ci duole d'aver dovuto intrattenere a lungo i lettori di pazze e
scelerate profanazioni, e non vorremmo che ci venisse dato carico di non averle presentate con quel senso di gravita che sarebbe stato conveniente.
Leah Tolbert-Lyons focuses on women's relations to men and motherhood in Traversee; Mireille Sacotte analyzes Leocadie Timothee's subtle but revolutionary attitude toward education; Fabienne Viala studies female cannibalism in La Vie
scelerate, Celanire cou-coupe, and La Femme cannibale.
Derriere la fantaisie du modeste repas qui se deroule dans la "caverne
scelerate" (1369) de Jeanlin aurait lieu l'esquisse d'un festin totemique.
It is worth remembering, then, that in the 1980s Chantal Thomas was among the first of a small cohort of scholars working on both sides of the Atlantic to analyse through a feminist lens the mythologization of Marie-Antoinette as "queen of vice." Seuil's publication in 1989 of La Reine
scelerate, Thomas's lively examination of the extensive defamatory, and often pornographic pamphlet literature directed against the queen, was a trailblazing event in an academic milieu newly intrigued by the workings of gender in politics.
(31) On d'Artois's reputation, see Chantal Thomas, La Reine
scelerate: Marie-Antoinette dans les pamphlets (Paris, 1989), 118, 169-73, 187-96.
La vie
scelerate (1987), her fifth novel, traces a Guadeloupean bourgeois family through four generations of gain, loss, miscegenation and exile.
In 1986 Conde returned to live in Guadeloupe, where La Vie
scelerate (1987; Tree of Life ) is set.