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"Was There Not a Moment You Felt Pity for Me?": The Questions Gisele Pelicot Wants to Ask Her Former Husband

Gisèle Pelicot reveals abuse by her husband and 51 charged men, seeking justice and solidarity with survivors after years of trauma and family rupture.

Gisele Pelicot's brave pursuit of a case against the husband who raped her helped change the law. Here she shares an exclusive extract from her new memoir A Hymn To Life.

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72 men, 92 times: these are the parameters of Gisèle Pelicot's nearly decade-long, serial rape. But she herself is by no means equal to the crimes that were committed on her body, or rather, using her body without her knowledge. The Pelicot case shocked the whole world a few years ago. The life of the 71-year-old woman, who has since become a feminist icon, was turned upside down after the police confronted her with the discovery of about a deca…

·Budapest, Hungary
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Edwin Chávez Mirko Lauer’s disenchantment “Reigns” and an aesthetic of survival: “People want to read things that move it” Howard Fast said that hell begins when the simplest acts of existence become monstrous. Gisèle Pelicot’s powerful and creepy memory book, “A hymn to life,” seems to have been written to support that claim. LOOKS: Jaime Bayly: “Voting for politicians is like watching pornography: then I feel dirty” As we know, Pelicot became …

·Lima, Peru
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Gisèle Pelicot tells of violence, betrayal and a trial that shook France. However, the focus is not on crime, but on a woman who takes back her story.

Words cannot adequately convey the harrowing story of a woman who discovered how her husband committed the most unimaginable atrocities. Gisèle Pelicot was the victim of an unconscious nightmare, practically a living death at the hands of the man she loved, a sentence that will haunt her for the rest of her days. But it was her decision to tell her story, to express it, and to make it public that shifted the blame, turning it on the rapists.

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