Alain Finkielkraut has struck again. Monday January 11, 2021, a few days after the book's release La Familia Grande (Threshold Edition) by Camille Kouchner, the 71-year-old philosopher (who had already created controversy with his opinion on Roman Polanski) returned to the Duhamel affair during the show 24h Pujadas, in which he was a columnist. During his discussion with journalist David Pujadas, Alain Finkielkraut put into perspective the rapes allegedly committed by Olivier Duhamel on his stepson "Victor" in the 1980s when he was 13 years old: "You have to know whether there was consent or not", he estimated before adding that in this kind of business, "when trying to find out if there was consent or some form of reciprocity, we immediately fall on you ". After these words, LCI decided to put an end to their collaboration, as revealed Telerama.
This is not the first time that Alain Finkielkraut shocks public opinion. On November 13, 2019, the columnist got carried away by Caroline de Haas in the same program. "I tell men 'rape women'. Besides, I rape mine every night. She's fed up," he had launched live. But who is his wife, Sylvie Topaloff, to whom he has been married for 30 years?
Sylvie Topaloff, lawyer and mother of her only son
Alain Finkielkraut married lawyer Sylvie Topaloff in 1985, five years after they met in politics. Together they had an only son, Thomas, who became a screenwriter. Partner at Teissonnière, Lafforgue, Andreu & associés, Sylvie Topaloff specializes in the areas of work, health and the environment: the lawyer is also engaged with the National Association for the Defense of Asbestos Victims, Ecology Without Borders and L214.
Alain Finkielkraut and his wife live in the Montparnasse district, located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, as revealed Release a few years ago in a long paper dedicated to the essayist. We learn in particular that Sylvie Topaloff, who speaks little in the media, is "the quiet force" of the couple. The academician measures his luck to have him in his life. Thursday April 16, 2020, Alain Finkielkraut had indeed ensured in C to you that he would not have supported being alone during the long weeks of confinement: "If I had been alone, maybe I would have let myself die. "
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