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Between 1977 and 1979, while a change in the French [[Penal Code]] was under discussion in the [[Parliament]], a number of French [[intellectual]]s, including prominent names, signed [[petition]]s and open letters defending either the abolition of [[age of consent]] laws or the release of individuals arrested under charges of [[statutory rape]].
[[Image:Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|left|Joseph Bonaparte]]
=='''1977 petition addressed to the Parliament'''==
 
In 1977, a petion was addressed to the parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age-of-consent law and the [[decriminalization]] of all consented relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France).
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The document was signed by the philosophers [[Michel Foucault]], [[Jacques Derrida]], [[Louis Althusser]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]] and [[André Glucksmann]], by the philosopher and [[Semiotics|semiotician]] [[Roland Barthes]], by the novelist/gay activist [[Guy Hocquenghem]], the actor/play-writer/jurist
'''Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Naples, King of Spain''' ([[January 7]], [[1768]] – [[July 28]], [[1844]])
[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Danet Jean Danet], the writer and filmmaker [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] (elected in 2004 a member of the [[Académie Française]]), the writer [[Philippe Sollers]], the pediatrician and child psychoanalyst [[Françoise Dolto]] and also by people belonging to a wide range of political positions. <ref>Foucault, Hocquenghem and Danet are referenced several times as petitioners in the Michel Foucault’s text “[[Sexual Morality and the Law]]” ([http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm see online version in English]). The name of Françoise Dolto and the term “people belonging to a wide range of political positions” are mentioned on page 273 (see also the [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm online version in English]). The names of philosophers Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser and André Glucksmann come from the [http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html Dignaction.org] website (in French). Finally, the names of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Roland Barthes, as well as of the writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Philippe Sollers, come from the [http://www.denistouret.net/textes/Cohn-Bendit.html Denistouret.net] website (also in French).</ref>
was the elder brother of French Emperor [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon I]], who made him [[King of Naples|king of Naples]] (1806&ndash;1808) and later [[King of Spain|king of Spain]]. He was nominally king of Spain from [[July 6]], [[1808]] to [[December 11]], [[1813]], but from [[June 13]], [[1812]] he was back in France.
 
===1977 petition to the Parliament - List of signatures===
Bonaparte was born '''Giuseppe Napoleone Buonaparte''' to [[Carlo Buonaparte]] and [[Letizia Ramolino]] at [[Corte]] in [[Corsica]]. As a lawyer, politician, and diplomat, he served in [[Council of Five Hundred|the ''Cinq-Cents'']] and was the French ambassador to [[Rome]]. He married [[Julie Clary]] on [[August 1]], [[1794]] in Cuges-les-Pins, [[France]]. The couple later had two children, Zénaïde and Charlotte.
 
* [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]]
The [[Château de Villandry]] had been seized by the [[French Revolution]]ary government and in the early [[1800s]] Joseph's brother, Emperor Napoleon, acquired the château for him. In 1806, Bonaparte was given military command of [[Naples]], and shortly afterward was made king by Napoleon. He became [[Spanish monarchy|King of Spain]] two years later after his sister's husband, [[Joachim Murat]], was made king of Naples. The Spanish people nicknamed him '''[[Pepe]] Botella''' ("Bottle Joe") pointing to an alleged tendency to drunkenness. His supporters were called ''[[afrancesado|josefinos]]'' or ''[[afrancesados]]'' (''frenchified''). During his reign, he ended the [[Spanish Inquisition]]'s reign of terror, partly because Napoleon was at odds with Pope [[Pius VII]] at the time.
* [[André Glucksmann]]
* [[Françoise Dolto]]
* [[Guy Hocquenghem]]
* [[Jacques Derrida]]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Danet Jean Danet]
* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]
* [[Louis Althusser]]
* [[Michel Foucault]]
* [[Philippe Sollers]]
* [[Roland Barthes]]
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]]
* and “people belonging to a wide range of political positions”.<ref>The term “people belonging to a wide range of political positions” is mentioned on page 273 of Foucault’s text, ''[[Sexual Morality and the Law]]'', Chapter 16 of ''Politics, Philosophy, Culture –Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984''. Edited by Lawrence D. Krizman. New York/London: 1988, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90082-4 (see also the [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm online version] in English)</ref>
 
==1978 radio conversation between Foucault, Hocquenghem and Danet==
Despite such efforts to win popularity, Bonaparte's foreign birth and support, plus his membership in a [[Freemasonry|Mason]]ic lodge {{fact}}, virtually guaranteed he would never be accepted as legitimate by the bulk of the Spanish people. During his rule of Spain, Venezuela declared independence (1810) from Spain, the first nation to do so. During the [[Peninsular War]], his command of French forces in Spain proved to be only nominal, as his commanders insisted on checking with the king's younger brother before carrying out Joseph's instructions. These facts, combined with the constant threat of assassination, made his reign an exceedingly unpleasant experience for him.
 
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Bonaparte abdicated and returned to France after defeat at the [[Battle of Vitoria]]. He was seen by [[Bonapartists]] as the rightful Emperor of the French after the death of Napoleon's own son [[Napoleon II]] in 1832, although he did little to advance his claim. He lived for a time in the United States, in a home at [[Bordentown, New Jersey]]. Joseph Bonaparte died in [[Florence]], [[Italy]] and is buried in [[Les Invalides]] building complex in [[Paris]].
 
On April 4, 1978, an extensive conversation detailing the reasons for their pro-abolition positions was broadcast by radio [[France Culture]] in the program "''Dialogues''". The participants, Michel Foucault, Jean Danet and Guy Hocquenghem, had all signed the 1977 petition, along with other intellectuals.<ref>Foucault, Hocquenghem and Danet are referenced several times as petitioners in the Michel Foucault’s text “[[Sexual Morality and the Law]]” ([http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm see online version in English]). The name of Françoise Dolto and the term “people belonging to a wide range of political positions” are mentioned on page 273 (see also the [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm online version in English]). The names of philosophers Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser and André Glucksmann come from the [http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html Dignaction.org] website (in French). Finally, the names of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Roland Barthes, as well as of the writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Philippe Sollers, come from the [http://www.denistouret.net/textes/Cohn-Bendit.html Denistouret.net] website (also in French).</ref>
The [[Joseph Bonaparte Gulf]] in the [[Northern Territory]] of [[Australia]] was named for him.
 
They believed that the [[penal system]] was replacing the [[punishment]] of criminal acts by the creation of the figure of the individual [[danger|dangerous]] to [[society]] (regardless of any actual crime), and predicted that a '''society of dangers''' would come. They also have defined the idea of legal consent as a contractual notion and a ‘trap’, once ‘no one makes a contract before making love’. <ref>FOUCAULT, Michel. Politics, Philosophy, Culture –Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited by Lawrence D. Krizman. New York / London: 1988, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90082-4. Chapter 16, [[Sexual Morality and the Law]], pp. 271-285. See page 285 or [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm Online version].</ref> The conversation has been published as “[[Sexual Morality and the Law]]” and later reprinted as “The Danger of Child Sexuality”.
He is often cited as a fluent Spanish speaker, but in fact his preferred language was French. He reluctantly learned Spanish when he became the King of Spain and even then, he could only speak broken phrases{{fact}}.
 
=='''Open letters published in French newspapers'''==
===Le Monde – January 26, 1977===
 
An open letter was published in '''[[Le Monde]]''', on the eve of the trial of three Frenchmen, (Bernard Dejager, Jean-Claude Gallien, and Jean Burckardt), all accused of having sex with 13 and 14 year old girls and boys. Two of them had then been in temporary custody since 1973 and the letter referred to this fact as scandalous.
 
The letter was signed by 69 people, including [[Jack Lang]] (formerly France’s Minister of Culture and Minister of Education), [[Bernard Kouchner]] (who has been France’s Minister of Health and co-founder of [[Doctors Without Borders]]), [[Michel Bon]] (formerly CEO and Chairman of [[Carrefour]] and of [[France Télécom]] and now President of the [[Pasteur Institute]]), and public intellectuals such as [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], [[Gilles Deleuze]], [[Roland Barthes]], [[André Glucksmann]] and [[Guy Hocquenghem]], along with 9 specialists – 5 psychiatrists, 1 doctor, 1 psychologist, 1 psychoanalyst, and 1 [[Social Science|social scientist]]. <ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/00aug29b1_from_1977.htm 1977 Le Monde petition - text and signatures] (in English)</ref> <ref>[http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html 1977-1979 petitions and signatures] (in French)</ref> <ref>[http://www.simona.com/bimbi/bimbi7.html#app1b 1977 Le Monde petition - list of signatures] (in Italian)</ref>
 
The document claimed there was a disproportion between the qualification of their acts as a crime and the nature of the reproached acts, and also a [[contradiction]] once adolescents in France were fully [[age of criminal responsibility|responsible for their acts]] from the age of 13. The text also pointed out that if 13 year old girls in France had the right to receive the [[contraception|pill]] so they should be able to consent. <ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/00aug29b1_from_1977.htm 1977 Le Monde petition - text and signatures] (in English)</ref> <ref>[http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html 1977-1979 petitions and signatures] (in French)</ref>
 
===Le Monde – Complete list of 69 signatures===
 
The complete list of names follows:
 
* Alain Cuny
* [[André Glucksmann]]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Querrien Anne Querrien]
* Bernard Dort
* Dr. [[Bernard Kouchner]]
* Dr. Bernard Muldworf (psychiatrist)
* Bertrand Boulin
* [[Catherine Millet]]
* Catherine Valabrègue
* Christian Hennion
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Rochefort Christiane Rochefort]
* Dr. Claire Gellman (psychologist)
* Claude d’Allonnes
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copi Copi]
* [[Daniel Guérin]]
* Danielle Sallenave
* Dionys Mascolo
* Fanny Deleuze
* [[Félix Guattari]]
* [[Francis Ponge]]
* [[François Châtelet]]
* François Régnault
* [[Françoise d'Eaubonne]]
* Françoise Laborie
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Matzneff Gabriel Matzneff]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lapassade Georges Lapassade]
* Gérard Soulier
* Dr. Gérard Vallès (psychiatrist)
* [[Gilles Deleuze]]
* Gilles Sandier
* Grisélédis Réal
* [[Guy Hocquenghem]]
* Hélène Védrines
* [[Jack Lang]]
* Jacques Henric
* [[Jean-François Lyotard]]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Bory Jean-Louis Bory]
* Jean-Luc Henning
* Jean-Marie Vincent
* Jean-Michel Wilheim
* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]
* Jean-Pierre Colin
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Faye Jean-Pierre Faye]
* Judith Belladona
* [[Louis Aragon]]
* Madeleine Laïk
* Marc Pierret
* Marie Thonon
* Dr. Maurice Erne (psychiatrist)
* [[Michel Bon]] (also psychosociologist)
* Michel Cressole
* Michel Leyris
* Négrepont
* Olivier Revault d'Allonnes
* [[Patrice Chéreau]]
* Philippe Gavi
* [[Philippe Sollers]]
* Dr. Pierre-Edmond Gay (psychoanalyst)
* [[Pierre Guyotat]]
* Pierre Hahn
* Pierre Samuel
* Dr. Pierrette Garrou (psychiatrist)
* Raymond Lepoutre
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/René_Schérer René Schérer]
* Dr. Robert Gellman (psychiatrist)
* [[Roland Barthes]]
* [[Simone de Beauvoir]]
* Victoria Therame
* Vincent Montail
 
The specific signature of writer [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Matzneff Gabriel Matzneff] in the petition may be seen as a result of [[bias]], once he is a self-proclaimed post-pubescent [[adolescent]] girl lover. <ref> [http://www.matzneff.com Gabriel Matzneff's official site]</ref>
 
===Libération – March, 1979===
A similar, but more [[polemic|polemical]] letter was published in the paper '''[[Libération]]''' in 1979, supporting Gérard R., an accused child sex criminal awaiting his trial for eighteen months, signed by 63 persons, including [[Pascal Bruckner]], [[Georges Moustaki]], and [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Rochefort Christiane Rochefort]. The letter says that Gérard R. lived with young girls aged 6 to 12, "whose blooming shows before the eyes of all, including their parents, the [[happiness]] that they found with him".
The letter was later reproduced in the paper '''[[L’Express]]''', in the issue of March 7, 2001. <ref>[http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html 1977-1979 petitions and signatures] (in French)</ref> Other than Christiane Rochefort, it is not recorded that any of the signatories of the 1977 letter also signed the 1979 letter, or that they were aware of it.
 
==Footnotes==
 
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==References==
===In English===
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* [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm IPCE - The Danger of Child Sexuality] – Reprint of Foucault’s text “Sexual Morality and the Law”.
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* FOUCAULT, Michel. Politics, Philosophy, Culture –Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited by Lawrence D. Krizman. New York / London: 1988, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90082-4. Chapter 16, [[Sexual Morality and the Law]], pp. 271-285. The 1977 petition to the Parliament is mentioned on pages 272-273.
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===In French===
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* [http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html Dignaction.org] - Lists the May 1977 petition to the Parliament as well as the two open letters published in Le Monde and Libération.
* [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/00aug29b2_le_monde.htm IPCE Library on the open letter in Le Monde (French version)]
* [http://www.denistouret.net/textes/Cohn-Bendit.html Denistouret.net] (see “«Libé» en écho d'un vertige commun”, “pétitions”) - Reproduces an article by Sorj Chalandon, published in [[Libération]] on 23 February 2001, pp. 3 and 4. The article mentions the two 1977 petitions, and adds the names of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Philippe Sollers as signatories of the 1977 petition addressed to the Parliament.
* ''La censure des bien-pensants'', p. 96 (Paris:2003, published by [[Éditions Albin Michel]]). The book was written by journalist [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ménard Robert Ménard], founder of [[Reporters Without Borders]] and Emmanuelle Duverger, an [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalist]] jurist and member of the Fédération internationale des droits de l'homme (or [[International Federation of Human Rights Leagues]]). The book mentions the two 1977 petitions. Source: website “[http://www.denistouret.net/textes/Menard.html Denistouret.net]” (page on Menard, item 6).
 
* '''NOTE:''' The website [http://www.decadi.com/dignaction/Fpetit.html Dignaction.org] seems to present a more [[neutrality|neutral]] and non-[[bias|biased]] point-of-view with respect to the 1977-1979 French petitions, trying not to judge them or their signatories (the title of the page in the navigation bar is “Equivocated petitions, or not”), while on the other side [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ménard Robert Ménard] in the website [http://www.denistouret.net/textes/Menard.html Denistouret.net] sees with [[guilt]] the alleged “mistakes” of a “whole generation”, treating all the 1977-1979 petitions as if they were equal, and associating them with some [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit#The Leaden Years|controversial passages]] of ''Le Grand Bazar'', a book written by [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]] and published in 1975 by [http://www.belfond.fr Éditions Belfond]. A carelessly written sentence of the book led to false accusations of pedophilia for Bendit, in the context of a political campaign in 2001. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (now an European MP) was one of the lead participants of the [[May 1968]] movement in France, as well as many of the intellectual petitioners, but it is not recorded if Bendit himself has signed any of the 1977-1979 petitions.
 
===In Italian===
 
* [http://www.simona.com/bimbi/bimbi7.html#app1b Per una legislazione diversa sulla sessualità dei minorenni] Comments on the open letter published in Le Monde and lists the signatures.
* BECCHI, Egle (a cura di), ''L'amore dei bambini. Pedofilia e discorsi sull'infanzia'', Milan: 1981, Opuscoli Feltrinelli, pp. 35-36 ([http://www.simona.com/bimbi/bimbi7.html#app1b source]).
 
==See also==
 
* [[Age of consent reform]]
* [[Age of consent]]
* [[Sexual Morality and the Law]]
* [[Pedophile activism]]
* [[List of French language authors]]
 
'''Other French petitions'''
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*[http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/nj6.html Joseph Bonaparte and the Jersey Devil]
 
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Between 1977 and 1979, while a change in the French Penal Code was under discussion in the Parliament, a number of French intellectuals, including prominent names, signed petitions and open letters defending either the abolition of age of consent laws or the release of individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape.

1977 petition addressed to the Parliament

In 1977, a petion was addressed to the parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age-of-consent law and the decriminalization of all consented relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France).

The document was signed by the philosophers Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and André Glucksmann, by the philosopher and semiotician Roland Barthes, by the novelist/gay activist Guy Hocquenghem, the actor/play-writer/jurist Jean Danet, the writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet (elected in 2004 a member of the Académie Française), the writer Philippe Sollers, the pediatrician and child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto and also by people belonging to a wide range of political positions. [1]

1977 petition to the Parliament - List of signatures

1978 radio conversation between Foucault, Hocquenghem and Danet

Main article: Sexual Morality and the Law

On April 4, 1978, an extensive conversation detailing the reasons for their pro-abolition positions was broadcast by radio France Culture in the program "Dialogues". The participants, Michel Foucault, Jean Danet and Guy Hocquenghem, had all signed the 1977 petition, along with other intellectuals.[3]

They believed that the penal system was replacing the punishment of criminal acts by the creation of the figure of the individual dangerous to society (regardless of any actual crime), and predicted that a society of dangers would come. They also have defined the idea of legal consent as a contractual notion and a ‘trap’, once ‘no one makes a contract before making love’. [4] The conversation has been published as “Sexual Morality and the Law” and later reprinted as “The Danger of Child Sexuality”.

Open letters published in French newspapers

Le Monde – January 26, 1977

An open letter was published in Le Monde, on the eve of the trial of three Frenchmen, (Bernard Dejager, Jean-Claude Gallien, and Jean Burckardt), all accused of having sex with 13 and 14 year old girls and boys. Two of them had then been in temporary custody since 1973 and the letter referred to this fact as scandalous.

The letter was signed by 69 people, including Jack Lang (formerly France’s Minister of Culture and Minister of Education), Bernard Kouchner (who has been France’s Minister of Health and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders), Michel Bon (formerly CEO and Chairman of Carrefour and of France Télécom and now President of the Pasteur Institute), and public intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, André Glucksmann and Guy Hocquenghem, along with 9 specialists – 5 psychiatrists, 1 doctor, 1 psychologist, 1 psychoanalyst, and 1 social scientist. [5] [6] [7]

The document claimed there was a disproportion between the qualification of their acts as a crime and the nature of the reproached acts, and also a contradiction once adolescents in France were fully responsible for their acts from the age of 13. The text also pointed out that if 13 year old girls in France had the right to receive the pill so they should be able to consent. [8] [9]

Le Monde – Complete list of 69 signatures

The complete list of names follows:

The specific signature of writer Gabriel Matzneff in the petition may be seen as a result of bias, once he is a self-proclaimed post-pubescent adolescent girl lover. [10]

Libération – March, 1979

A similar, but more polemical letter was published in the paper Libération in 1979, supporting Gérard R., an accused child sex criminal awaiting his trial for eighteen months, signed by 63 persons, including Pascal Bruckner, Georges Moustaki, and Christiane Rochefort. The letter says that Gérard R. lived with young girls aged 6 to 12, "whose blooming shows before the eyes of all, including their parents, the happiness that they found with him". The letter was later reproduced in the paper L’Express, in the issue of March 7, 2001. [11] Other than Christiane Rochefort, it is not recorded that any of the signatories of the 1977 letter also signed the 1979 letter, or that they were aware of it.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Foucault, Hocquenghem and Danet are referenced several times as petitioners in the Michel Foucault’s text “Sexual Morality and the Law” (see online version in English). The name of Françoise Dolto and the term “people belonging to a wide range of political positions” are mentioned on page 273 (see also the online version in English). The names of philosophers Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser and André Glucksmann come from the Dignaction.org website (in French). Finally, the names of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Roland Barthes, as well as of the writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Philippe Sollers, come from the Denistouret.net website (also in French).
  2. ^ The term “people belonging to a wide range of political positions” is mentioned on page 273 of Foucault’s text, Sexual Morality and the Law, Chapter 16 of Politics, Philosophy, Culture –Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited by Lawrence D. Krizman. New York/London: 1988, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90082-4 (see also the online version in English)
  3. ^ Foucault, Hocquenghem and Danet are referenced several times as petitioners in the Michel Foucault’s text “Sexual Morality and the Law” (see online version in English). The name of Françoise Dolto and the term “people belonging to a wide range of political positions” are mentioned on page 273 (see also the online version in English). The names of philosophers Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser and André Glucksmann come from the Dignaction.org website (in French). Finally, the names of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Roland Barthes, as well as of the writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Philippe Sollers, come from the Denistouret.net website (also in French).
  4. ^ FOUCAULT, Michel. Politics, Philosophy, Culture –Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited by Lawrence D. Krizman. New York / London: 1988, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90082-4. Chapter 16, Sexual Morality and the Law, pp. 271-285. See page 285 or Online version.
  5. ^ 1977 Le Monde petition - text and signatures (in English)
  6. ^ 1977-1979 petitions and signatures (in French)
  7. ^ 1977 Le Monde petition - list of signatures (in Italian)
  8. ^ 1977 Le Monde petition - text and signatures (in English)
  9. ^ 1977-1979 petitions and signatures (in French)
  10. ^ Gabriel Matzneff's official site
  11. ^ 1977-1979 petitions and signatures (in French)

References

In English

  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Politics, Philosophy, Culture –Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. Edited by Lawrence D. Krizman. New York / London: 1988, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90082-4. Chapter 16, Sexual Morality and the Law, pp. 271-285. The 1977 petition to the Parliament is mentioned on pages 272-273.

In French

  • NOTE: The website Dignaction.org seems to present a more neutral and non-biased point-of-view with respect to the 1977-1979 French petitions, trying not to judge them or their signatories (the title of the page in the navigation bar is “Equivocated petitions, or not”), while on the other side Robert Ménard in the website Denistouret.net sees with guilt the alleged “mistakes” of a “whole generation”, treating all the 1977-1979 petitions as if they were equal, and associating them with some controversial passages of Le Grand Bazar, a book written by Daniel Cohn-Bendit and published in 1975 by Éditions Belfond. A carelessly written sentence of the book led to false accusations of pedophilia for Bendit, in the context of a political campaign in 2001. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (now an European MP) was one of the lead participants of the May 1968 movement in France, as well as many of the intellectual petitioners, but it is not recorded if Bendit himself has signed any of the 1977-1979 petitions.

In Italian

See also

Other French petitions

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