Christine Angot calls Emmanuel Macron’s decision a “slap in the face”

“In a system where respect is measured by wealth, strength and power, those who possess it can only receive admiration, smiles, medals and the Legion of Honor,” denounces Christine Angot in a column published in Libération.

Author Christine Angot, who said she was humiliated several times on the set of Thierry Ardisson’s show Everyone’s Talking About It, described it this way “hit” Emmanuel Macron’s gesture of awarding the TV presenter the Legion of Honor.

“Humor-humiliation is the kind “Public service” which French television has given back to society every Saturday evening for so many years and which today is honored in the hands of the President.wrote the author a published column in everyday life Release Saturday April 13th.

“In a system where respect is measured by wealth, strength and power, those who possess it can only receive admiration, smiles, medals and the Legion of Honor. But they didn’t change the era” she denounced again, recalling the laughter at the incest she wrote about.

Chain reaction

Several other artists, such as the actresses Judith Godrèche and Sara Forestier, spoke out against this decoration, which they described as “Shame”referring to the controversial interviews conducted by Thierry Ardisson on his broadcasts. “2006. I still live with my parents, in my teenage room. I turn on a TV to advertise my WORK. And then, giggling, they ask me if I’ve ever flirted with my dad’s friends. Or if I’ve already done that, flirted with my father’wrote Sara Forestier on the social network Instagram.

During the award ceremony that named Thierry Ardisson a Knight of the Legion of Honor at the Elysée Palace on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron said he was honored “50 years of television and creations”. “You are a character of complete freedom, a provocateur and scholar (…) More than a television presenter, you are a pioneer of modernity with a thirst for creativity, a kind of out-of-date anarchist who loves France.” declared the President.

The announcement of the upcoming award of the National Order of Merit to Michel Sardou by Emmanuel Macron also caused a stir among some feminist activists, such as the environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau and Anne-Cécile Mailfert, President of the Women’s Foundation.

In the context of the #MeToo movement, the president was also criticized for referring to the actor Gérard Depardieu, accused of rape and subject to several complaints, as “…” “great actor” WHO “makes France proud”.