Le Regole del saper viver nella societa moderna

Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne is a black comedy that deploys ferocious sarcasm against places of good taste. On an empty stage, a Lady mercilessly enumerates the "proprieties" of good society, informing on the steps to take in the event of stillbirth, suggesting unlikely first names for boys and girls, quoting Victor Hugo and giving advice on godparents, weddings and funerals. A highly entertaining counter-etiquette that demolishes the hypocrisies of social life by showing the double bottom of the senseless ceremonies that threaten us with the weight of their repetitive circularity. With this jewel, the author signs an Enlightenment treatise (hard not to think, for the main character, of the caustic humor of the Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons dangereuses) on the rites and myths of society.