In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s autobiographical short story, the author shows how women, at the end of the nineteenth century, suffered from the “medical” treatment they were subjected to in order to cure depression. Eighty years after its original publication, the story was translated into French in 1976, 1982 and 2002. This article examines the ways in which these three translations highlight or neglect the author’s feminist discourse, and looks at the stylistic rendering of the discourse of madness in the three francophone versions of the story.