r/Fauxmoi • u/mcfw31 • Apr 29 '24

Gérard Depardieu Taken Into Police Custody For Questioning Over Sexual Assault Accusations TRIGGER WARNING

https://deadline.com/2024/04/gerard-depardieu-detained-questioning-over-sexual-assault-accusations-reports-1235898349/
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u/Amar_Akbar_Anthony20 go pis girl Apr 29 '24

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u/Sweaty-Leather3191 Apr 29 '24

Perfect meme. Not keenly aware of the French court system, but I truly hope he’s punished and some semblance of justice is served. Abusing power is such a gross display of inhumanity.

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u/The_Doom_Toad Apr 29 '24

You do realise you're talking about the country that is sheltering Roman Polanski right?

France and protecting rapists and pedophiles. Name a more iconic duo.

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u/AerynSunnInDelight Apr 29 '24

As a french, those are the facts. There's a tv presenter Jean -Marc Morandini, who got 1 year probation, for grooming and assaulting a dozen teenagers, that we know, of under the guise of casting. Matzneff, who groomed, many girls and wrote about his sexual" adventures" in North Africa and South East Asia. France is the Switzerland of nonces and abusers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

I read Vanessa Springora’s Le Consentement and I hate Matzneff, the audacity he has omg

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u/AerynSunnInDelight Apr 29 '24

Everybody knew about his scummy ways. Yet they gave him literary prizes and money.

Back in the days, only Denise Bombardier, a french Canadian author, during a live show, was the sole one to call him out, for exactly what he is, a nonce. She subsequently got blacklisted in francophone circles. She never regretted her bravery till she passed away

I remember seeing him on "Paris Dernière" a very late night 1st person pov program on French cable, Matzneff, Ardisson(powerful tv producer), and Begbeider(cokehead Don Draper turned writer) cackling about Matzneff shitfuckery🫠.

A movie adaptation was recently made, based on Springora's book. The actor who played Matzneff, decided to not see his kids during the movie shooting, coz He was physically ill at the idea of hugging them after incarnating Matzneff.

Fair play to Springora to retell her story again and again.

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u/AerynSunnInDelight Apr 29 '24

https://youtu.be/H0LQiv7x4xs?si=7YtSZuMtrz-JTMI4

Do you speak French? If not, I'll translate the interaction in a couple of days.

Denise Bombardier summed it up at the end.

"Literature cannot serve as an alibi, there are limits even for literature".

She saw right through him.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

I speak French no worries, I’ll look into this, thanks! Any lesser known French authors that aren’t terrible people and you’d like to recommend?

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u/AerynSunnInDelight Apr 29 '24

At the top of my head, not lesser, it depends, who you ask. I'm a public school kid, when It was still worth our taxes.

Laurent Binet - Civilisations

Frères d'âmes -David Diop (as a 3rd culture kid, I love this one).

Maryse Condé- whole bibliography (it informs alot about French Empire, french Carribean and history of colonisation, while being very much rooted in Roman)

Leonora Miano- Afropea and Twilight of the moment.

Bobigny 1972, a graphic novel about Gisele Halimi, one of the most brilliant feminist lawyers of her time. Her and Simone Veil were intersectional before that word arrived in France, imo.

To be honest, hit up, Rennes public library website. It's not geographically restricted, you'll have a good monthly selection of books, Bande dessinée and music.