The novel *Happening* (*L’Événement*) was written in 1999. It recounts an abortion that took place when the procedure was still prohibited in the author’s home country, France. Beyond the complex personal and psychological circumstances, the work presents a socio-political portrait of France at that time—a society that did not resolve the issue, but merely suppressed it. The very title of the novel conveys a social message: the author’s abortion was not merely a private act or the suffering of a single woman, but a significant occurrence that would eventually erupt into powerful resistance and evolve into a genuine political event.