The Independent - London, January 18th, 2000
THE MOST soul-shattering tragedy in the social history of France occurred in 1946, when the Assemblee Nationale abolished the brothels. The poet Pierre Mac Orlan declared: "The entire structure of our civilisation has collapsed!" The boxons had enjoyed tolerance since the reign of Napoleon I.
Forty years later, Alphonse Boudard mourned this national disaster by writing La Fermeture ("The Closing-Down"). It is an erudite sociological document composed in the style of a rocambolesque pornographic novel, all obviously based on the author's rich personal experience. It is also an assassination in...
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