You have to go to the Private Hospital of Provence (HPP), at the beginning of the followingnoon, to realize that Olivier Marpeau is not quite a doctor like the others. The man with the athletic figure, dressed in a t-shirt and jeans, is laughing. He talks fast. And tells a host of anecdotes. Behind his budding beard, the man first presents himself as a gynecological surgeon: in other words, a specialist in the “gynecological sphere” for women. After years at the Etoile maternity hospital in Puyricard as an obstetrician, he wanted to spend more time in the operating room. Olivier Marpeau grew up in Paris, where he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He passed the very selective medical competition, first studied orthopedics, then did an internship in gynecology where