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#MeTooInceste: has France’s code of silence finally been broken?

Olivier Duhamel [Getty Images] 
issue 30 January 2021

Montpellier

Accusations of child abuse against Olivier Duhamel, now 70, ex-vice-president of Sciences Po university and of the secretive Siècle (Century) club of Parisian movers and shakers, have cast a dark shadow on the legacy of the soixante-huitards, the baby boomers who occupied the Sorbonne in 1968 and went on to rule (and ruin) France.

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