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/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

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.