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The radical feminist activist, elected EELV to the Council of Paris, would like to defend the cause of women in the… Senate! Encounter.
By Said Mahrane
Activist. The elected EELV Alice Coffin (without mask) demonstrates for the resignation of the deputy for culture of the town hall of Paris, Christophe Girard, a close friend of Gabriel Matzneff, on July 23, 2020.
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EShe is seized with a huge burst of laughter, which suddenly makes us look like an idiot. We had just, innocently, told him of our embarrassment as a male educated according to the gallant precepts of the XXe century: should we give her space on the velvet bench of the café where she finds us? Or would she take this politeness of another age for proof of a tenacious machismo? Alice Coffin laughed. “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it yet,” she jokes, finally grabbing a chair.
This cafe is the one at the top of rue de Tournon, very close to the Senate, where she had a meeting. After the Paris City Hall, where she sits as a municipal councilor, the Upper House could become her next playground. And this…