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CROSS INTERVIEW. The novelist and the ecologist MP have agreed to speak, (almost) without getting annoyed, about feminism, activism, radicalism and sexuality.
Interview by Clement Petreault
Back to back. Impromptu discussion between Sandrine Rousseau and Frédéric Beigbeder at the brasserie du Dôme, in Paris, on March 20.
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IThey don’t agree on anything, but know how to find the words to say it to each other. Monday, March 20, customers of the brasserie du Dôme, in the Montparnasse district, witness an unexpected scene. The eternal dandy Frédéric Beigbeder, in a velvet jacket and fine knit tie, warms up before debating with the most publicized member of the legislature, the eco-feminist Sandrine Rousseau. The novelist, who publishes his Confessions of a Slightly Overwhelmed Heterosexual(Albin Michel, released on April 6), brought his work to the elected representative of the North… who took advantage of the debates on the motion of censure to read this text which calls for “eliminate patriarchy without stigmatizing flirts”. Intrigued, the figurehead of a sometimes radical feminism agreed to play contrad…
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