Talk:French petitions against age of consent laws
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Can we clarify whether any of the famous names who signed the 1977 letter also signed the 1979 letter? At the moment, the page is a little passively misleading: the celebs' endorsement of the moderately teen-permissive language of the first letter can be read as extending to the extremely pro-pedophilia language of the second letter. To avoid such confusion, I'd like a statement that the folks on the long list did not sign the second (or if some did, then say who those ones were). Sorry, I realize a complete list of signatures for the second letter doesn't appear on the source page.
Also, who actually wrote thee letters?
DanB DanD 18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think you are right. There are no evidences that the names are the same ones, except for the name of Christiane Rochefort. Probably there is some overlapping but we can't say for sure. The source in French mentions "plus attendus ou moins connus" after the 3 names, which means (according to Babelfish) "more waited or less known". Paulo Andrade 16:13, 9 August 2006 (GMT)
[edit] error in the list of names on the petition
It think it might be an error to include the names of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Philippe Sollers for the petition. They did sign the letter to Le Monde in January 1977, but I can't find any evidence that they signed the petition to the parliament later that year. I think that the error probably comes from the website denistouret.net (http://www.denistouret.net/constit/Cohn-Bendit.html ). The website cites an article from the newspaper Libération which seems to have misread an article that appeared in the magazine L'Express (Jacqueline Remy, “Libération sexuelle: Le devoir d’inventaire,” L’Express, no. 2591, 01/03/2001, page 80-82). The article in L'Express talked about both the January 1977 letter and the petition later that year and somehow it seems that the two got confused. For example, the website quotes Sollers as saying "Il y avait tellement de pétitions. On signait presque automatiquement," but here Sollers was talking about the January letter and NOT the petition. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Scotteaux (talk • contribs) 17:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC).
