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Madeleine Chapsal. Une femme heureuse. Paris. Fayard. 1995. 376 pages. 130 F. ISBN 2-213-59420-1.

Madeleine Chapsal, who has written other novels, poetry, essays, and works for the theater, presents in Une femme heureuse the life of Clotilde, a woman who obtains a divorce in order to experience a new freedom. At first she takes pleasure in her liberty, but after a series of love affairs she becomes bored and depressed. She reveals that she is prey to a lack of money and sexual...