Gabrielle Russier - Revision history

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	[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		__NOTOC__[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love), including a popular film by André Cayatte which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. Later in 2009, a television film by Josée Dayan was strongly criticized by former pastor Michel Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally. He considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> [[File:Christian-Rossi-18-in-Paris-May-27-1970.jpg\|thumb\|Christian Rossi pictured at 18 years old in Paris, May 27th 1970.]] After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide by filling her apartment with gas.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love), including a popular film by André Cayatte which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. Later in 2009, a television film by Josée Dayan was strongly criticized by former pastor Michel Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally. He considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> [[File:Christian-Rossi-18-in-Paris-May-27-1970.jpg\|thumb\|Christian Rossi pictured at 18 years old in Paris, May 27th 1970.]] After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide by filling her apartment with gas.

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	[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including ~~the~~ popular André Cayatte ~~film~~ which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan ~~broadcast in 2009,~~ was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally~~; he~~ considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> [[File:Christian-Rossi-18-in-Paris-May-27-1970.jpg\|thumb\|Christian Rossi pictured at 18 years old in Paris, May 27th 1970.]] After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love), including a popular film by André Cayatte which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. Later in 2009, a television film by Josée Dayan was strongly criticized by former pastor Michel Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally. He considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> [[File:Christian-Rossi-18-in-Paris-May-27-1970.jpg\|thumb\|Christian Rossi pictured at 18 years old in Paris, May 27th 1970.]] After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide by filling her apartment with gas.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"

	Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot (who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral). In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:		Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left the asylum and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral. In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:

	<blockquote>''We told a lot of lies around our affair, we wanted to give her ''[Gabrielle]'' the image of a teacher who had bewitched his young student. The reality was very different. There was never the traditional teacher-student relationship between her and me. She came with us skiing. We were dating. This is how we gradually grew closer. But it's not because she was my teacher that we liked each other, we could have met anywhere else.''</blockquote>		<blockquote>''We told a lot of lies around our affair, we wanted to give her ''[Gabrielle]'' the image of a teacher who had bewitched his young student. The reality was very different. There was never the traditional teacher-student relationship between her and me. She came with us skiing. We were dating. This is how we gradually grew closer. But it's not because she was my teacher that we liked each other, we could have met anywhere else.''</blockquote>
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	<blockquote>''It wasn’t a passion at all. It was love. Passion is not lucid. Now, it was lucid. ''[...]'' The ''[two years]'' of memories that she left me, she left them to me, I don't have to tell them. I feel them. I experienced them alone. ''[...]'' The rest, people know: it's a woman called Gabrielle Russer. We loved each other, we put her in prison, she killed herself. It's simple.''</blockquote>		<blockquote>''It wasn’t a passion at all. It was love. Passion is not lucid. Now, it was lucid. ''[...]'' The ''[two years]'' of memories that she left me, she left them to me, I don't have to tell them. I feel them. I experienced them alone. ''[...]'' The rest, people know: it's a woman called Gabrielle Russer. We loved each other, we put her in prison, she killed herself. It's simple.''</blockquote>

	The scholarly article "''The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair''" (2005)<ref>Keith Reader, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0957155805049563 The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair], ''French Cultural Studies'', 16(1): 005–020.</ref> recounts the event and gives historical perspective on a "now largely forgotten but still important part of the [[wikipedia:May_68\|history of 1968]] and its aftermath". The 1971 book "''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier''" provides important historical context. The book contains English-translated letters from Gabrielle to Christian, a preface by a professor who knew Gabrielle (Raymond Jean), and an introduction which reproduces an article from ''The New Yorker'' by popular author Mavis Gallant.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/06/26/immortal-gatito The Case of Gabrielle Russier], ''The New Yorker'' (1971).</ref> Available online, Gallant explains:		The scholarly article "''The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair''" (2005)<ref>Keith Reader, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0957155805049563 The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair], ''French Cultural Studies'', 16(1): 005–020.</ref> recounts the event and gives historical perspective on a "now largely forgotten but still important part of the [[wikipedia:May_68\|history of 1968]] and its aftermath". The 1971 book "''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier''" provides important historical context.<ref>''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier'' (Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1971). Preface by Raymond Jean; Introduction by Mavis Gallant. Letters and Preface translated from the French by Chislaine Boulanger.</ref> The book contains English-translated letters from Gabrielle to Christian, a preface by a professor who knew Gabrielle (Raymond Jean), and an introduction which reproduces an article from ''The New Yorker'' by popular author Mavis Gallant.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/06/26/immortal-gatito The Case of Gabrielle Russier], ''The New Yorker'' (1971).</ref> Available online, Gallant explains:

	<blockquote>''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. ''[...]'' Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''		<blockquote>''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. ''[...]'' Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''

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	In 2017, ''Libération'' published a column by the editor Jean-Marc Savoye titled "La Revanche de Gabrielle", pointing out a similarity in the story of Gabrielle Russier with that of the new President Emmanuel Macron who, as a fifteen-year-old high school student, is living a story of love with his teacher Brigitte Trogneux.		In 2017, ''Libération'' published a column by the editor Jean-Marc Savoye titled "La Revanche de Gabrielle", pointing out a similarity in the story of Gabrielle Russier with that of the new President Emmanuel Macron who, as a fifteen-year-old high school student, is living a story of love with his teacher Brigitte Trogneux.

			==Gallery==

			<gallery>
			File:Russier-and-Rossi-film.jpg\|Russier and Rossi depicted in film.
			File:Who-kills-or-the-Gabrielle-Russer-affair-April-1970-Exhibition-Paris-Museum-of-Modern-Art-By-Malassis-cooperative.jpg\|Exhibition in April 1970 at the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris “Who kills? or the Gabrielle Russer affair. Malassis cooperative.
			File:September-1967-Christian-Rossi-is-in-the-back-row-second-from-the-right.jpg\|The second C class at the start of the school year in September 1967. Christian Rossi is in the back row, second from the right.
			</gallery>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> [[File:Christian-Rossi-18-in-Paris-May-27-1970.jpg\|thumb\|Christian Rossi pictured at 18 years old in Paris, May 27th 1970.]] After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"

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	'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

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	'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"

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	'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref>Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref~~>''Ibid''.<~~/~~ref~~> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref~~>''Ibid''.<~~/~~ref~~> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Georges_Pompidou Georges Pompidou], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"

	Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot (who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral). In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:		Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot (who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral). In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:

	::''We told a lot of lies around our affair, we wanted to give her [Gabrielle] the image of a teacher who had bewitched his young student. The reality was very different. There was never the traditional teacher-student relationship between her and me. She came with us skiing. We were dating. This is how we gradually grew closer. But it's not because she was my teacher that we liked each other, we could have met anywhere else.''		<blockquote>''We told a lot of lies around our affair, we wanted to give her ''[Gabrielle]'' the image of a teacher who had bewitched his young student. The reality was very different. There was never the traditional teacher-student relationship between her and me. She came with us skiing. We were dating. This is how we gradually grew closer. But it's not because she was my teacher that we liked each other, we could have met anywhere else.''</blockquote>

	On September 1, 1971, he gave an exclusive interview with ''Nouvel Observateur'':		On September 1, 1971, he gave an exclusive interview with ''Nouvel Observateur'':

	::''It wasn’t a passion at all. It was love. Passion is not lucid. Now, it was lucid. [...] The [two years] of memories that she left me, she left them to me, I don't have to tell them. I feel them. I experienced them alone. [...] The rest, people know: it's a woman called Gabrielle Russer. We loved each other, we put her in prison, she killed herself. It's simple.''		<blockquote>''It wasn’t a passion at all. It was love. Passion is not lucid. Now, it was lucid. ''[...]'' The ''[two years]'' of memories that she left me, she left them to me, I don't have to tell them. I feel them. I experienced them alone. ''[...]'' The rest, people know: it's a woman called Gabrielle Russer. We loved each other, we put her in prison, she killed herself. It's simple.''</blockquote>

	The scholarly article "''The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair''" (2005)<ref>Keith Reader, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0957155805049563 The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair], ''French Cultural Studies'', 16(1): 005–020.</ref> recounts the event and gives historical perspective on a "now largely forgotten but still important part of the [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~May_68 history of 1968] and its aftermath". The 1971 book "''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier''" provides important historical context. The book contains English-translated letters from Gabrielle to Christian, a preface by a professor who knew Gabrielle (Raymond Jean), and an introduction which reproduces an article from ''The New Yorker'' by popular author Mavis Gallant.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/06/26/immortal-gatito The Case of Gabrielle Russier], ''The New Yorker'' (1971).</ref> Available online, Gallant explains:		The scholarly article "''The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair''" (2005)<ref>Keith Reader, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0957155805049563 The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair], ''French Cultural Studies'', 16(1): 005–020.</ref> recounts the event and gives historical perspective on a "now largely forgotten but still important part of the [[wikipedia:May_68\|history of 1968]] and its aftermath". The 1971 book "''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier''" provides important historical context. The book contains English-translated letters from Gabrielle to Christian, a preface by a professor who knew Gabrielle (Raymond Jean), and an introduction which reproduces an article from ''The New Yorker'' by popular author Mavis Gallant.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/06/26/immortal-gatito The Case of Gabrielle Russier], ''The New Yorker'' (1971).</ref> Available online, Gallant explains:

	''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. [...] Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''		<blockquote>''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. ''[...]'' Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''

	''This is so unusual from pupil to teacher in France that it just touches the implausible. Relations are formal in a lycée. [...] One of the complaints students have is that their teachers are remote as planets and that they can never discuss anything with them, not even their work. Gabrielle, on the contrary, wanted to be one of them. She based much of her social life on their movies, their outings, their songs. She invited them to her apartment to talk and listen to records. The students loved this''.		''This is so unusual from pupil to teacher in France that it just touches the implausible. Relations are formal in a lycée. ''[...]'' One of the complaints students have is that their teachers are remote as planets and that they can never discuss anything with them, not even their work. Gabrielle, on the contrary, wanted to be one of them. She based much of her social life on their movies, their outings, their songs. She invited them to her apartment to talk and listen to records. The students loved this''.</blockquote>

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	'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref>Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle~~, who gave her permission to take their son abroad to Italy~~, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref>Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou Georges Pompidou], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou Georges Pompidou], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"

	Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot (who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral). In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:		Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot (who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral). In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:
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	'''Incarcerations: December 1968 and April 1969'''		'''Incarcerations: December 1968 and April 1969'''

	The investigating judge Bernard Palanque, called while he was not on duty because the case was considered “delicate” ~~[ 8 ]~~ , indicted Gabrielle ~~Russer~~ for embezzlement of a minor and ordered her incarceration at Baumettes prison for the first time.		The investigating judge Bernard Palanque, called while he was not on duty because the case was considered “delicate”, indicted Gabrielle for embezzlement of a minor and ordered her incarceration at Baumettes prison for the first time.

	Christian Rossi's parents decide to place him in different institutes, then have him interned in the ''L'Émeraude'' psychiatric clinic, where he undergoes a sleep treatment for three weeks. Despite these events, Gabrielle and Christian meet again and Christian ends up running away. On April 14 , 1969, Gabrielle was imprisoned again, first for a few days, then for five weeks from April 25 to June 13, 1969 for refusing to reveal where Christian was hiding. She ultimately remained in detention for fifty days.		Christian Rossi's parents decide to place him in different institutes, then have him interned in the ''L'Émeraude'' psychiatric clinic, where he undergoes a sleep treatment for three weeks. Despite these events, Gabrielle and Christian meet again and Christian ends up running away. On April 14 , 1969, Gabrielle was imprisoned again, first for a few days, then for five weeks from April 25 to June 13, 1969 for refusing to reveal where Christian was hiding. She ultimately remained in detention for fifty days.

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	''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. [...] Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''		''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. [...] Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''

	''This is so unusual from pupil to teacher in France that it just touches the implausible. Relations are formal in a lycée. [...] One of the complaints students have is that their teachers are remote as planets and that they can never discuss anything with them, not even their work. Gabrielle, on the contrary, wanted to be one of them. She based much of her social life on their movies, their outings, their songs. She invited them to her apartment to talk and listen to records. The students loved this, but their parents were bothered; because she gave her students books by Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian, some parents started a rumor that she was organizing a Communist cell. [...] Even her car might have belonged to an adolescent.''		''This is so unusual from pupil to teacher in France that it just touches the implausible. Relations are formal in a lycée. [...] One of the complaints students have is that their teachers are remote as planets and that they can never discuss anything with them, not even their work. Gabrielle, on the contrary, wanted to be one of them. She based much of her social life on their movies, their outings, their songs. She invited them to her apartment to talk and listen to records. The students loved this''.

	==Details from Wikipedia==		==Details from Wikipedia==

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	'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref>Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, who gave her permission to take their son abroad to Italy, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> The publicity following her arrest, likened to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, songs such as ''Gabrielle'' by Serge Reggiani<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Serge_Reggiani?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Wiki on Reggiani].</ref> and ''Flowers for Gabrielle'' by Anne Sylvestre,~~<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Anne_Sylvestre?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Wiki on Anne Sylvestre].</ref>~~ and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love).<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref>Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, who gave her permission to take their son abroad to Italy, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair Dreyfus affair],<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou Georges Pompidou], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou Georges Pompidou], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"

			Rossi, who had been forced / committed to a psychiatric asylum by his parents, left and was taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot (who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral). In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:

			::''We told a lot of lies around our affair, we wanted to give her [Gabrielle] the image of a teacher who had bewitched his young student. The reality was very different. There was never the traditional teacher-student relationship between her and me. She came with us skiing. We were dating. This is how we gradually grew closer. But it's not because she was my teacher that we liked each other, we could have met anywhere else.''

			On September 1, 1971, he gave an exclusive interview with ''Nouvel Observateur'':

			::''It wasn’t a passion at all. It was love. Passion is not lucid. Now, it was lucid. [...] The [two years] of memories that she left me, she left them to me, I don't have to tell them. I feel them. I experienced them alone. [...] The rest, people know: it's a woman called Gabrielle Russer. We loved each other, we put her in prison, she killed herself. It's simple.''

	The scholarly article "''The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair''" (2005)<ref>Keith Reader, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0957155805049563 The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair], ''French Cultural Studies'', 16(1): 005–020.</ref> recounts the event and gives historical perspective on a "now largely forgotten but still important part of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 history of 1968] and its aftermath"~~: "Would a new ''affaire Russier'' be possible today? How would it be differently treated in Britain or the US"?~~ The 1971 book "''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier''" provides important historical context. The book contains English-translated letters from Gabrielle to Christian, a preface by a professor who knew Gabrielle (Raymond Jean), and an introduction which reproduces an article from ''The New Yorker'' by popular author Mavis Gallant.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/06/26/immortal-gatito The Case of Gabrielle Russier], ''The New Yorker'' (1971).</ref> Available online, Gallant explains:		The scholarly article "''The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair''" (2005)<ref>Keith Reader, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0957155805049563 The Policing of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair], ''French Cultural Studies'', 16(1): 005–020.</ref> recounts the event and gives historical perspective on a "now largely forgotten but still important part of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68 history of 1968] and its aftermath". The 1971 book "''The Affair of Gabrielle Russier''" provides important historical context. The book contains English-translated letters from Gabrielle to Christian, a preface by a professor who knew Gabrielle (Raymond Jean), and an introduction which reproduces an article from ''The New Yorker'' by popular author Mavis Gallant.<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/06/26/immortal-gatito The Case of Gabrielle Russier], ''The New Yorker'' (1971).</ref> Available online, Gallant explains:

	''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. [...] Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''		''She was not at all like other teachers. When she walked into the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Marseille in October, 1967, to take over three classes in French literature, the students thought she was a new girl. She was thirty, but looked eighteen. She was tiny, just over five feet tall, and weighed about a hundred pounds. Her hair was cropped short, as boys’ hair used to be. [...] Her students worshipped her. They called her Gatito, which is Spanish for “little cat,” and they used the familiar “tu” in addressing her.''
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	On June 23, the University of Aix-en-Provence rejected Gabrielle's application for a position as a linguistics assistant.		On June 23, the University of Aix-en-Provence rejected Gabrielle's application for a position as a linguistics assistant.

	~~'''The future of Christian Rossi'''~~

	Christian Rossi's parents have him committed to a psychiatric asylum. Once out, he is taken in and hidden by pastor Michel Viot who had conducted Gabrielle's funeral. In February 1970, he provided an update to the press:

	::''We told a lot of lies around our affair, we wanted to give her [Gabrielle] the image of a teacher who had bewitched his young student. The reality was very different. There was never the traditional teacher-student relationship between her and me. She came with us skiing. We were dating. This is how we gradually grew closer. But it's not because she was my teacher that we liked each other, we could have met anywhere else.''

	~~On September 1, 1971, he gives an exclusive interview with Nouvel Observateur:~~

	::''It wasn’t a passion at all. It was love. Passion is not lucid. Now, it was lucid. [...] The [two years] of memories that she left me, she left them to me, I don't have to tell them. I feel them. I experienced them alone. [...] The rest, people know: it's a woman called Gabrielle Russer. We loved each other, we put her in prison, she killed herself. It's simple.''

	'''Reaction of Georges Pompidou'''		'''Reaction of Georges Pompidou'''
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	Five days after her death, filmmaker Jacques Deray announced his intention to make a film telling the story of Gabrielle Russer. Following the preventive detentions of Gabrielle which many deemed abusive, the Minister of Justice René Pleven announced in October 1969 a reform of preventive detention.		Five days after her death, filmmaker Jacques Deray announced his intention to make a film telling the story of Gabrielle Russer. Following the preventive detentions of Gabrielle which many deemed abusive, the Minister of Justice René Pleven announced in October 1969 a reform of preventive detention.

	The affair and the suicide of Gabrielle Russer moved the singer Charles Aznavour who immediately set about writing a song. Then it was André Cayatte who shot the film Mourir d'aimer in 1970, inspired by the affair, which became a great success with 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.

	In 2017, ''Libération'' published a column by the editor Jean-Marc Savoye titled "La Revanche de Gabrielle", pointing out a similarity in the story of Gabrielle Russier with that of the new President Emmanuel Macron who, as a fifteen-year-old high school student, is living a story of love with his teacher Brigitte Trogneux.		In 2017, ''Libération'' published a column by the editor Jean-Marc Savoye titled "La Revanche de Gabrielle", pointing out a similarity in the story of Gabrielle Russier with that of the new President Emmanuel Macron who, as a fifteen-year-old high school student, is living a story of love with his teacher Brigitte Trogneux.

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	[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.		[[File:Gabrielle-lighting-Christian-Rossis-cigarette-on-Sainte-Croix-beach-in-Martigues-July-1968.jpg\|thumb\|Gabrielle Russier, pictured lighting Christian Rossi's cigarette on Sainte-Croix beach in Martigues, in July 1968 (See Gallery below for more)]]'''Gabrielle Russier''', (Born April 29, 1937, in Paris - Died September 1, 1969, in Marseille), was an associate professor of literature. At 31-years-old with two children, following the stigmatization of a [[Consent\|consensual]] romantic / sexual relationship with '''Christian Rossi''' - one of her sixteen-year-old students - Gabrielle and her romantic life became the subject of nationwide controversy and debate. Their case is a historical [[Accounts_and_Testimonies\|positive experience]] between a teacher and student who were legally adult and minor ([[AAM]]), in which the couple were subjected to [[Research:_Secondary_Harm\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]], leading to psychological distress and death.

	A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.		A ''New York Times'' article describes Christian as "a big, bearded, militant Maoist who looked at least 25", whereas "Mrs. Russier was tiny and frail, like a child with an unusually grave face."<ref name="Broyard">Anatole Broyard, [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/01/archives/a-truly-french-tragicomedy.html A Truly French Tragicomedy] (''The New York Times'', Dec. 1, 1971).</ref> Christian's parents were professors and friends with Gabrielle, but objected to and criminalized their relationship after Gabrielle formally requested their permission to live together. After sending Christian away to a boarding school which failed to keep the couple apart, the parents "went to court because they were afraid that Mrs. Russier would take Christian away from them."<ref name="Broyard" /> The massive publicity following her arrest, likened to the [[wikipedia:Dreyfus_affair\|Dreyfus affair]],<ref name="Broyard" /> led to her prison letters being read and performed on the radio, the creation of sympathetic songs, numerous books, and multiple films under the name ''Mourir d'aimer'' (Dying to Love) including the popular André Cayatte film which saw 5.9 million admissions in theaters. A television film by Josée Dayan broadcast in 2009, was strongly criticized by former pastor Viot, who had presided over Gabrielle's funeral and knew Christian personally; he considered the film's message to have distorted the love story between a teacher and her student.<ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(film,_1971)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (1971)] by André Cayatte.</ref><ref>[https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mourir_d%27aimer_(t%C3%A9l%C3%A9film,_2009)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Dying to Love (TV movie, 2009)], directed by Josée Dayan.</ref> [[File:Christian-Rossi-18-in-Paris-May-27-1970.jpg\|thumb\|Christian Rossi pictured at 18 years old in Paris, May 27th 1970.]] After months of controversy and preventive detention, Gabrielle Russier was tried, fined and given a suspended sentence of 12 months. However, within 30 minutes of the verdict, the public prosecutor moved for a retrial and stiffer sentence. Before the retrial could take place, Gabrielle committed suicide.

	These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"		These events were of such national importance that the newly-elected president [[Wikipedia:Georges_Pompidou\|Georges Pompidou]], when asked about the affair on a televised Presidential press conference, recited a poem by Paul Éluard about a girl martyred by society because she loved the wrong person. Before her death, Gabrielle reportedly wrote to Christian: "''You were the only man I ever knew.''"