摘要：In 1753 Chevrier publishes Mémoires d’une honnête femme écrits par elle-mêmewhere the author aims to subvert conventional mémoires giving voice to a female character, incontrast to traditional mémoires describing a whole life of a male character. Chevrier focuseson a short period comprising Julie’s marriage and her choice to finish her days in a convent. Usingtypical elements characterizing libertine and sentimental novels, the writer joins somecomponents defining roman noir (Noir fiction) and picaresque novel passing from one genre toanother without any sense of transition. Taking into consideration heterogeneous inter-textualreferences, we dare to claim that Mémoires d’une honnête femme has been subjected to differentliterary influences with the objective of questioning some rules which were imposed by the highsociety of the period concerned.
