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	File:G.M. with teen who inspired Anne Geneviève in Ivre du vin perdu.jpg\|~~<small>~~Matzneff with the teenager who inspired the character of Anne-Geneviève in ''Ivre du vin perdu'' - very likely Francesca Gee - at Notre-Dame (photo by Arnaud Baumann)		File:G.M. with teen who inspired Anne Geneviève in Ivre du vin perdu.jpg\|Matzneff with the teenager who inspired the character of Anne-Geneviève in ''Ivre du vin perdu'' - very likely Francesca Gee - at Notre-Dame (photo by Arnaud Baumann)
	File:Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries.jpg\|Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries - in particular in ''Mes amours décomposés'', in ''Calamity Gab'', in ''La prunelle de mes yeux'', in ''Carnets noirs'' 2007-2008 and in ''Les Emiles de Gab la Rafale'' - and who inspired one of the poems of ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' and the character of Constance in ''Here come the Fiancé''.</small>		File:Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries.jpg\|<small>Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries - in particular in ''Mes amours décomposés'', in ''Calamity Gab'', in ''La prunelle de mes yeux'', in ''Carnets noirs'' 2007-2008 and in ''Les Emiles de Gab la Rafale'' - and who inspired one of the poems of ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' and the character of Constance in ''Here come the Fiancé''.</small>
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	File:Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries.jpg\|Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries - in particular in ''Mes amours décomposés'', in ''Calamity Gab'', in ''La prunelle de mes yeux'', in ''Carnets noirs'' 2007-2008 and in ''Les Emiles de Gab la Rafale'' - and who inspired one of the poems of ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' and the character of Constance in ''Here come the Fiancé''.		File:Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries.jpg\|Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries - in particular in ''Mes amours décomposés'', in ''Calamity Gab'', in ''La prunelle de mes yeux'', in ''Carnets noirs'' 2007-2008 and in ''Les Emiles de Gab la Rafale'' - and who inspired one of the poems of ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' and the character of Constance in ''Here come the Fiancé''.</small>
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	Ms. Gee claims to have attempted to publish a condemnatory book on her relationship with Matzneff, which was rejected by multiple publishers, and - most seriously for Matzneff - that he had published sexually charged letters she wrote to him as a teenager without her permission. The ''Times'' wrote:		Ms. Gee claims to have attempted to publish a condemnatory book on her relationship with Matzneff, which was rejected by multiple publishers, and - most seriously for Matzneff - that he had published sexually charged letters she wrote to him as a teenager without her permission. The ''Times'' wrote:

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	''Encouraged by Mr. Matzneff, Ms. Gee had written him hundreds of amorous and sexually explicit letters during their three years together.		''Encouraged by Mr. Matzneff, Ms. Gee had written him hundreds of amorous and sexually explicit letters during their three years together.
	[[File:Matzneff with Francesca Gee Paris 1975.png\|thumb\|Matzneff and Gee in Paris, 1975.]]		[[File:Matzneff with Francesca Gee Paris 1975.png\|thumb\|Matzneff and Gee in Paris, 1975.]]''
	Some of them he published in 1974, without her authorization, in his fierce defense of pedophilia, “Les Moins de Seize Ans” (“Under 16 Years Old”). He was offering those letters, he wrote in another book, “Les Passions Schismatiques,” as evidence that “a relationship of love between an adult and a child could be for the latter extremely rich, and the source of a fullness of life.”
			''Some of them he published in 1974, without her authorization, in his fierce defense of pedophilia, “Les Moins de Seize Ans” (“Under 16 Years Old”). He was offering those letters, he wrote in another book, “Les Passions Schismatiques,” as evidence that “a relationship of love between an adult and a child could be for the latter extremely rich, and the source of a fullness of life.”''

	Ms. Gee said the words in the letters were those of a teenager manipulated by a man the age of her parents. Her letters were also used in “Ivre du vin perdu,” the novel whose cover featured an illustration of her.		''Ms. Gee said the words in the letters were those of a teenager manipulated by a man the age of her parents. Her letters were also used in “Ivre du vin perdu,” the novel whose cover featured an illustration of her.''

	“Now I consider they were extorted and used as a weapon against me,” Ms. Gee said. In her manuscript, Ms. Gee writes that “he used me to justify the sexual exploitation of children and teenagers.”''		''“Now I consider they were extorted and used as a weapon against me,” Ms. Gee said. In her manuscript, Ms. Gee writes that “he used me to justify the sexual exploitation of children and teenagers.”''
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	To death threats he responded that "what was written in ''Rivarol'' had no importance whatsoever; and that it was only natural that the extreme right should speak the language of the extreme right. So I didn't phone my lawyer and I thought of other matters."<ref name="Matzneff">[http://www.pileface.com/sollers/pdf/Les%20petites%20cuill%C3%A8res%20d'argent2.pdf Article by Matzneff (in French)].</ref> In a later 1980s criticism, he describes being "struck by the similarity of the vocabulary used by anti-Semites and that used by those who call for the extermination of libertines. The ingredients are the same: jealousy, hatred, caricature to make the enemy despicable and hateful."<ref name="Matzneff" />		To death threats he responded that "what was written in ''Rivarol'' had no importance whatsoever; and that it was only natural that the extreme right should speak the language of the extreme right. So I didn't phone my lawyer and I thought of other matters."<ref name="Matzneff">[http://www.pileface.com/sollers/pdf/Les%20petites%20cuill%C3%A8res%20d'argent2.pdf Article by Matzneff (in French)].</ref> In a later 1980s criticism, he describes being "struck by the similarity of the vocabulary used by anti-Semites and that used by those who call for the extermination of libertines. The ingredients are the same: jealousy, hatred, caricature to make the enemy despicable and hateful."<ref name="Matzneff" />

	His open discussion of intergenerational sex slowly became more controversial during and after the 1990s, during where age-disparate sex and the figure of the "monstrous pedophile"<ref>See, for example, Steven Angelides. (October, 2005). ''The Emergence of the Paedophile in the Late Twentieth Century''. Australian Historical Studies, 36(126): 272-29. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233358216_The_Emergence_of_the_Paedophile_in_the_Late_Twentieth_Century Researchgate] link. [https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/angelides_frame.htm IPCE] link.</ref> was more and more openly denounced.<ref>[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Matzneff#Pros%C3%A9lytisme_%C3%A9ph%C3%A9bophile_et_p%C3%A9dophile Most of the information above is paraphrased from an article in ''Le Monde'', cited in Wikipedia].</ref> For example, the late journalist Denise Bombardier was considered outspoken in 1990, for expressing her disgust towards Matzneff on the set of ''Apostrophes'' in 1990.<ref>[https://actu.orange.fr/france/denise-bombardier-est-morte-elle-avait-accuse-gabriel-matzneff-de-pedophilie-a-la-tv-magic-CNT0000025iZ27.html Denise Bombardier est morte : elle avait accusé Gabriel Matzneff de pédophilie à la TV]</ref> Even at this time, Bombardier faced backlash in the French press, allegedly including the French female journalist [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Josyane_Savigneau Josyane Savigneau], editor-in-chief of ''Le Monde des Livres''.<ref>This claim is "alleged" because, at time of writing, [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Josyane_Savigneau English Wikipedia sources for her] which make this claim, give 2 citations. The first is a BBC article (linked in the next footnote) which makes no mention of her. The next citation is from the ''Financial Times'', which is behind a paywall and of which we have no access to. Until we have verified the claim, we assume Josyane Savigneau ''may have'' criticized Bombardier / supported Matzneff.</ref> In an unsourced and unattributed quote, the British BBC noted one critic as saying: "So (Bombardier) has discovered that in the year 1990 girls of 15 make love to men who are 30 years older than they are! Well, big deal!"<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51133850 Hugh Schofield, When sexual abuse was called seduction: France confronts its past (BBC News, 19 January, 2020)].</ref> That same year, Matzneff joined the publishing house ''Gallimard'' with the help of Philippe Sollers, who published his 1979–1982 collection of diary entries, "Les Soleils révolus", and paid monthly royalties to Matzneff until 2004.		His open discussion of intergenerational sex slowly became more controversial during and after the 1990s, during where age-disparate sex and the figure of the "monstrous pedophile"<ref>See, for example, Steven Angelides. (October, 2005). ''The Emergence of the Paedophile in the Late Twentieth Century''. Australian Historical Studies, 36(126): 272-29. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233358216_The_Emergence_of_the_Paedophile_in_the_Late_Twentieth_Century Researchgate] link. [https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/angelides_frame.htm IPCE] link.</ref> was more and more openly denounced.<ref>[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Matzneff#Pros%C3%A9lytisme_%C3%A9ph%C3%A9bophile_et_p%C3%A9dophile Most of the information above is paraphrased from an article in ''Le Monde'', cited in Wikipedia].</ref> For example, the late journalist Denise Bombardier was considered outspoken in 1990, for expressing her disgust towards Matzneff on the set of ''Apostrophes'' in 1990.<ref>[https://actu.orange.fr/france/denise-bombardier-est-morte-elle-avait-accuse-gabriel-matzneff-de-pedophilie-a-la-tv-magic-CNT0000025iZ27.html Denise Bombardier est morte : elle avait accusé Gabriel Matzneff de pédophilie à la TV]</ref> Even at this time, Bombardier faced backlash in the French press, allegedly including the French female journalist [[Wikipedia:Josyane_Savigneau\|Josyane Savigneau]], editor-in-chief of ''Le Monde des Livres''.<ref>This claim is "alleged" because, at time of writing, [[wikipedia:Josyane_Savigneau\|English Wikipedia sources for her]] which make this claim, give 2 citations. The first is a BBC article (linked in the next footnote) which makes no mention of her. The next citation is from the ''Financial Times'', which is behind a paywall and of which we have no access to. Until we have verified the claim, we assume Josyane Savigneau ''may have'' criticized Bombardier / supported Matzneff.</ref> In an unsourced and unattributed quote, the British BBC noted one critic as saying: "So (Bombardier) has discovered that in the year 1990 girls of 15 make love to men who are 30 years older than they are! Well, big deal!"<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51133850 Hugh Schofield, When sexual abuse was called seduction: France confronts its past (BBC News, 19 January, 2020)].</ref> That same year, Matzneff joined the publishing house ''Gallimard'' with the help of Philippe Sollers, who published his 1979–1982 collection of diary entries, "Les Soleils révolus", and paid monthly royalties to Matzneff until 2004.

	The French context helps explain how Matzneff could live and express his sexual preference so openly. An age of consent was introduced in France on 28 April 1832, fixed to 11 years for both sexes and later raised to 13 years in 1863. On 6 August 1942, the Vichy Government introduced a discriminative law in the Penal Code: article 334 (moved to article 331 on 8 February 1945 by the Provisional Government of the French Republic) which increased the age of consent to 21 for homosexual relations and 15 for heterosexual ones. The age of 21 was then lowered to 18 in 1974, which had become the age of legal majority. This law remained valid until 4 August 1982, when it was [[Wikipedia:LGBT_rights_in_France#Sodomy_laws\|repealed under President François Mitterrand]] to equalize the age of consent at 15 years of age.		The French context helps explain how Matzneff could live and express his sexual preference so openly. An age of consent was introduced in France on 28 April 1832, fixed to 11 years for both sexes and later raised to 13 years in 1863. On 6 August 1942, the Vichy Government introduced a discriminative law in the Penal Code: article 334 (moved to article 331 on 8 February 1945 by the Provisional Government of the French Republic) which increased the age of consent to 21 for homosexual relations and 15 for heterosexual ones. The age of 21 was then lowered to 18 in 1974, which had become the age of legal majority. This law remained valid until 4 August 1982, when it was [[Wikipedia:LGBT_rights_in_France#Sodomy_laws\|repealed under President François Mitterrand]] to equalize the age of consent at 15 years of age.
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	''A decade later, in 2002, it was Mr. Matzneff who wrote to her, asking, for the first time, her permission to use old photographs of her in a book. In the turquoise blue ink that he always used to pen his letters, Mr. Matzneff offered to identify the teenager as “the young girl who inspired the character of Angiolina in ‘Ivre du vin perdu.’”		''A decade later, in 2002, it was Mr. Matzneff who wrote to her, asking, for the first time, her permission to use old photographs of her in a book. In the turquoise blue ink that he always used to pen his letters, Mr. Matzneff offered to identify the teenager as “the young girl who inspired the character of Angiolina in ‘Ivre du vin perdu.’”

	Not only did Ms. Gee refuse, but she also demanded again that his books be purged of her letters and that her face be taken off the cover of “Ivre du vin perdu.” [...]''		''Not only did Ms. Gee refuse, but she also demanded again that his books be purged of her letters and that her face be taken off the cover of “Ivre du vin perdu.” ''[...]''''
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	File:G.M. with teen who inspired Anne Geneviève in Ivre du vin perdu.jpg\|Matzneff with the teenager ~~(identity unknown to Newgon)~~ who inspired the character of Anne-Geneviève in ''Ivre du vin perdu'', at Notre-Dame (photo by Arnaud Baumann)		File:G.M. with teen who inspired Anne Geneviève in Ivre du vin perdu.jpg\|Matzneff with the teenager who inspired the character of Anne-Geneviève in ''Ivre du vin perdu'' - very likely Francesca Gee - at Notre-Dame (photo by Arnaud Baumann)
	File:Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries.jpg\|Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries - in particular in ''Mes amours décomposés'', in ''Calamity Gab'', in ''La prunelle de mes yeux'', in ''Carnets noirs'' 2007-2008 and in ''Les Emiles de Gab la Rafale'' - and who inspired one of the poems of ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' and the character of Constance in ''Here come the Fiancé''.		File:Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries.jpg\|Marie-Agnès B., very present in Gabriel Matzneff's diaries - in particular in ''Mes amours décomposés'', in ''Calamity Gab'', in ''La prunelle de mes yeux'', in ''Carnets noirs'' 2007-2008 and in ''Les Emiles de Gab la Rafale'' - and who inspired one of the poems of ''Super Flumina Babylonis'' and the character of Constance in ''Here come the Fiancé''.
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	''Encouraged by Mr. Matzneff, Ms. Gee had written him hundreds of amorous and sexually explicit letters during their three years together.		''Encouraged by Mr. Matzneff, Ms. Gee had written him hundreds of amorous and sexually explicit letters during their three years together.
			[[File:Matzneff with Francesca Gee Paris 1975.png\|thumb\|Matzneff and Gee in Paris, 1975.]]
	Some of them he published in 1974, without her authorization, in his fierce defense of pedophilia, “Les Moins de Seize Ans” (“Under 16 Years Old”). He was offering those letters, he wrote in another book, “Les Passions Schismatiques,” as evidence that “a relationship of love between an adult and a child could be for the latter extremely rich, and the source of a fullness of life.”		Some of them he published in 1974, without her authorization, in his fierce defense of pedophilia, “Les Moins de Seize Ans” (“Under 16 Years Old”). He was offering those letters, he wrote in another book, “Les Passions Schismatiques,” as evidence that “a relationship of love between an adult and a child could be for the latter extremely rich, and the source of a fullness of life.”

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	'''Francesca Gee'''		'''Francesca Gee'''
			[[File:Matzneff with Francesca Gee Paris 1973.png\|thumb\|Matzneff and Gee in Paris, 1973.]]
	A sexual relationship between Matzneff and Francesca Gee (born 8 February 1958), began when she was 15-years-old on the 11th of August, 1973, and ended acrimoniously in September 1976. According to Matzneff's diary ''The Francesca Passion: Journal 1974-76'', for more than 3 years they had a passionate but stormy love affair. Evidence of the emotional hold she still had on him appears throughout this journal, for example: "she was, and still remains today, after a year of separation, the greatest passion of my life, the only woman who totally captivated me, bewitched me. [...] She will have been the being I loved most in the world." (p. 150). The book also recounts how Matzneff was upset to discover that, while he had been monogamous - most unusual for him - she had been unfaithful to him with an English computer consultant called Michael B., initially during a holiday at Sauze d'Oulx, and lied about it. During this time, Matzneff put up with her what he portrays as her irrational jealousy and frequent tantrums.<ref>See earlier footnotes for a link to English extracts.</ref>		A sexual relationship between Matzneff and Francesca Gee (born 8 February 1958), began when she was 15-years-old on the 11th of August, 1973, and ended acrimoniously in September 1976. According to Matzneff's diary ''The Francesca Passion: Journal 1974-76'', for more than 3 years they had a passionate but stormy love affair. Evidence of the emotional hold she still had on him appears throughout this journal, for example: "she was, and still remains today, after a year of separation, the greatest passion of my life, the only woman who totally captivated me, bewitched me. [...] She will have been the being I loved most in the world." (p. 150). The book also recounts how Matzneff was upset to discover that, while he had been monogamous - most unusual for him - she had been unfaithful to him with an English computer consultant called Michael B., initially during a holiday at Sauze d'Oulx, and lied about it. During this time, Matzneff put up with her what he portrays as her irrational jealousy and frequent tantrums.<ref>See earlier footnotes for a link to English extracts.</ref>

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			*English translated extracts of Matzneff's journals [https://greek-love.com/index.php/modern-europe/france/the-journals-of-gabriel-matzneff/a-gallop-from-hell-1977-8 are available online] - see [[Greek Love Through The Ages]].
	*[[Media:English Translated Lisi Cori - La Petite Fille Sur Gabriel Matzneff et Le Consentement (2021).pdf\|English translation of Lisi Cori, The Little Girl and the Naughty Man (2021)]]		*[[Media:English Translated Lisi Cori - La Petite Fille Sur Gabriel Matzneff et Le Consentement (2021).pdf\|English translation of Lisi Cori, The Little Girl and the Naughty Man (2021)]]
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130326014423/http://matzneff.com/chronologie.php Chronology of Matzneff's life]. (French).		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130326014423/http://matzneff.com/chronologie.php Chronology of Matzneff's life]. (French).

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	~~The~~ sexual relationship between Matzneff and Francesca Gee (born 8 February 1958), began when she was 15-years-old on the 11th of August, 1973, and ended acrimoniously in September 1976. According to Matzneff's diary ''The Francesca Passion: Journal 1974-76'', for more than 3 years they had a passionate but stormy love affair. Evidence of the emotional hold she still had on him appears throughout this journal, for example: "she was, and still remains today, after a year of separation, the greatest passion of my life, the only woman who totally captivated me, bewitched me. [...] She will have been the being I loved most in the world." (p. 150). The book also recounts how Matzneff was upset to discover that, while he had been monogamous - most unusual for him - she had been unfaithful to him with an English computer consultant called Michael B., initially during a holiday at Sauze d'Oulx, and lied about it. During this time, Matzneff put up with her what he portrays as her irrational jealousy and frequent tantrums.		A sexual relationship between Matzneff and Francesca Gee (born 8 February 1958), began when she was 15-years-old on the 11th of August, 1973, and ended acrimoniously in September 1976. According to Matzneff's diary ''The Francesca Passion: Journal 1974-76'', for more than 3 years they had a passionate but stormy love affair. Evidence of the emotional hold she still had on him appears throughout this journal, for example: "she was, and still remains today, after a year of separation, the greatest passion of my life, the only woman who totally captivated me, bewitched me. [...] She will have been the being I loved most in the world." (p. 150). The book also recounts how Matzneff was upset to discover that, while he had been monogamous - most unusual for him - she had been unfaithful to him with an English computer consultant called Michael B., initially during a holiday at Sauze d'Oulx, and lied about it. During this time, Matzneff put up with her what he portrays as her irrational jealousy and frequent tantrums.<ref>See earlier footnotes for a link to English extracts.</ref>

	On March 21st, 2020, the ''New York Times'' writer Norimitsu Onishi, author of two previous mainstream articles condemning Matzneff,<ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171813/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-pedophilia-france.html?searchResultPosition=6 A Pedophile Writer Is on Trial. So Are the French Elites]''. (''NY Times'', Feb 2020).</ref><ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171929/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-christophe-girard-pedophile.html?searchResultPosition=3 Supporter of Gabriel Matzneff Says He Was Unaware of Pedophilia]''. (''NY Times'', March 2020).</ref>profiled one of Matzneff's former lovers from over 40 years ago, Ms. Francesca Gee, now 62 years-old. Ms. Gee contacted the ''Times'' in the wake of Springora's publicity and after the paper had published critically on Matzneff. In the article, Ms. Gee states that she came to re-interpret her relationship with Matzneff as negative by the 1990s, almost 20 years after they parted: "''For years, Ms. Gee’s feelings about her experience with Mr. Matzneff were “muddied.” Then in the early 1990s, her understanding became clearer.''		On March 21st, 2020, the ''New York Times'' writer Norimitsu Onishi, author of two previous mainstream articles condemning Matzneff,<ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171813/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-pedophilia-france.html?searchResultPosition=6 A Pedophile Writer Is on Trial. So Are the French Elites]''. (''NY Times'', Feb 2020).</ref><ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171929/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-christophe-girard-pedophile.html?searchResultPosition=3 Supporter of Gabriel Matzneff Says He Was Unaware of Pedophilia]''. (''NY Times'', March 2020).</ref>profiled one of Matzneff's former lovers from over 40 years ago, Ms. Francesca Gee, now 62 years-old. Ms. Gee contacted the ''Times'' in the wake of Springora's publicity and after the paper had published critically on Matzneff. In the article, Ms. Gee states that she came to re-interpret her relationship with Matzneff as negative by the 1990s, almost 20 years after they parted: "''For years, Ms. Gee’s feelings about her experience with Mr. Matzneff were “muddied.” Then in the early 1990s, her understanding became clearer.''

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			The sexual relationship between Matzneff and Francesca Gee (born 8 February 1958), began when she was 15-years-old on the 11th of August, 1973, and ended acrimoniously in September 1976. According to Matzneff's diary ''The Francesca Passion: Journal 1974-76'', for more than 3 years they had a passionate but stormy love affair. Evidence of the emotional hold she still had on him appears throughout this journal, for example: "she was, and still remains today, after a year of separation, the greatest passion of my life, the only woman who totally captivated me, bewitched me. [...] She will have been the being I loved most in the world." (p. 150). The book also recounts how Matzneff was upset to discover that, while he had been monogamous - most unusual for him - she had been unfaithful to him with an English computer consultant called Michael B., initially during a holiday at Sauze d'Oulx, and lied about it. During this time, Matzneff put up with her what he portrays as her irrational jealousy and frequent tantrums.

	On March 21st, 2020, the ''New York Times'' writer Norimitsu Onishi, author of two previous mainstream articles condemning Matzneff,<ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171813/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-pedophilia-france.html?searchResultPosition=6 A Pedophile Writer Is on Trial. So Are the French Elites]''. (''NY Times'', Feb 2020).</ref><ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171929/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-christophe-girard-pedophile.html?searchResultPosition=3 Supporter of Gabriel Matzneff Says He Was Unaware of Pedophilia]''. (''NY Times'', March 2020).</ref>profiled one of Matzneff's former lovers from over 40 years ago, Ms. Francesca Gee, now 62 years-old. Ms. Gee contacted the ''Times'' in the wake of Springora's publicity and after the paper had published critically on Matzneff. In the article, Ms. Gee states that she came to re-interpret her relationship with Matzneff as negative by the 1990s, almost 20 years after they parted: "''For years, Ms. Gee’s feelings about her experience with Mr. Matzneff were “muddied.” Then in the early 1990s, her understanding became clearer.''		On March 21st, 2020, the ''New York Times'' writer Norimitsu Onishi, author of two previous mainstream articles condemning Matzneff,<ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171813/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-pedophilia-france.html?searchResultPosition=6 A Pedophile Writer Is on Trial. So Are the French Elites]''. (''NY Times'', Feb 2020).</ref><ref>Onishi, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171929/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/gabriel-matzneff-christophe-girard-pedophile.html?searchResultPosition=3 Supporter of Gabriel Matzneff Says He Was Unaware of Pedophilia]''. (''NY Times'', March 2020).</ref>profiled one of Matzneff's former lovers from over 40 years ago, Ms. Francesca Gee, now 62 years-old. Ms. Gee contacted the ''Times'' in the wake of Springora's publicity and after the paper had published critically on Matzneff. In the article, Ms. Gee states that she came to re-interpret her relationship with Matzneff as negative by the 1990s, almost 20 years after they parted: "''For years, Ms. Gee’s feelings about her experience with Mr. Matzneff were “muddied.” Then in the early 1990s, her understanding became clearer.''

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