The windows of the publishing house were degraded by the inscription “feminists against fascist propaganda”. The work in question had been the subject of a campaign carried out by some intellectuals and journalists on the left to prevent its publication, which had been rejected by the publisher.
Intimidation until the day of publication. Wednesday, April 30, in Paris, the premises of Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) was degraded by a wild collage, as evidenced by several photos shared on social networks. Registration “Feminists against fascist propaganda” was stuck on its windows while stencils “WOKE FEARS” feminists “ et “PUF + sterin = heart” were affixed to the sidewalk. This vandalism act intervened on the day of the release of the book Faced with obscurantism Wokewritten under the direction of professor of letters Emmanuelle Hénin, linguist Xavier-Laurent Salvador and historian Pierre Vermeren.
For a month and a half, this work which aims to fight against “Ideological drifts that undermine the university” And brings together the contribution of 26 authors and researchers whose academic legitimacy is indisputable is at the heart of a campaign led by certain newspapers and intellectuals to prevent its publication. So much so that it had been initially deprogrammed by the publisher, before the latter is backwards and decides to simply postpone its publication, initially scheduled for April 9. The burning theme, but also the links between the authors and the Catholic billionaire Pierre-Edouard Sterin were at the origin of this media cabal.
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It all started on March 7, when the historian Patrick Boucheron, professor at the Collège de France and co -author of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, had set off the first arrows. On the occasion of a day of mobilization against the budget cuts operated by Donald Trump in American research, he had indignant: “There are also some useful idiots in the university. There are books that continue to appear. There is one to the PUF which is called in the face of the obscurantism WOKE. To PUF! To the PUF! “ The day after this release, while the text was published, modeling, the jacket chosen and the publication scheduled on the PUF site and on social networks, the management had announced in a press release that it suspended the publication. Part of the left press, Libération, The world et L’Obs In mind, jubilant. In their eyes, the only title of the book was enough to disqualify it.
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Albin Michel, Fayard, Ellipse … The publishers then pressed to offer to publish the book. It is finally with Jean-Luc Barré, the Plon boss, that the discussion advances. Among the authors, three protests, the others rank with the idea of publishing at Plon. With this banner affixed to the cover: “The prohibited book”. Finally, the boss of the PUF, Paul Garapon, had returned to his decision a few days later, to the chagrin of the authors, who would have preferred to change shops. Retrospectively, Paul Garapon assures that there has never been a question of censoring the work, only of delaying the publication … “We had to take the time to do checks”he assured the Figaro at the end of March.
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