The sordid truth about France’s “68ers”?

They embraced the student mantra that it was “forbidden to forbid” but some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes

GAVIN MORTIMER

FOR DECADES GÉRARD MILLER WAS ONE OF THE DARLINGS of the left in France. The 75-year-old was a celebrity psychoanalyst, a film director, newspaper columnist and a vehement critic of the right. His columns appeared in the left-wing Le Monde, such as the one published in September last year when he declared that “never have so many French Jews lost their moral compass to such an extent”. Miller lamented the fact that so many French people of his own Jewish faith had in recent years changed political allegiance from the left to the right. Four months later, Miller’s morality was under scrutiny. Elle magazine published a story accusing him of sexual aggression towards women. A few days later another media outlet levelled more accusations at him from other women. The…

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