chichebouche

Updated: May 23, 2025

This meant that for them the tomb was, as it were, a second gestation, preparing them for another life. Therefore the barrow symbolises the female organ, just as the raised stone is the male organ. In fact, where menhirs are found, an obscene creed has persisted. Witness what took place at Guerande, at Chichebouche, at Croissic, at Livarot.

Gustave Flaubert - Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life