Abstract
Can we escape censorship and authority by " realizing sexually ", or by speaking freely about it ? In 1975, when Pier-Paolo Pasolini wrote his poignant " j'abjure la Trilogie de la vie ", Michel Foucault questioned this " l'hypothèse régressive ". The public success of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie'sMontaillou should be understood against this backdrop of affirmed yet disenchanted sexual liberation . But a re-reading of Jacques Fournier's registers, in relation to the fabliaux and other erotic tales born of Boccaccio's narrative revolution, enables us to reconsider the relationship between violence and derision, and thus to redefine the political scope of these revolts of the obscene.