He has long boasted of his sexual encounters with boys and girls.The French writer Gabriel Matzneff in the Italian Riviera this month.

Springora recalls in her book: “In case of arrest, he thinks it has the power to save him.”In fact, it did, Mr. Matzneff recalled. Mitterrand wrote an article praising Mr. Matzneff that was published in the magazine Matulu in July 1986.“I saw him as a man who liked young women,” Josyane Savigneau said of Mr. Matzneff.

A spokesperson for the city told AFP it has “no legal basis” to expel Matzneff, because his income is below the ceiling for low income housing, and he is over the age of 65.Matzneff, now aged 83, has run away to the Italian Riviera.
“My goal actually was to lock him up in a book, to catch him in his own trap,” she said.A bookstore in Paris. As the scandal exploded in Paris, I pored through his diaries and books.

He wrote nearly 50 novels, essay collections and diaries that never would have made it to bookstores in an industry more concerned with the bottom line.French publishers dutifully accepted even diaries that sometimes overlapped and amounted to little beyond bookkeeping.

So Are the French Elites.The French writer Gabriel Matzneff in the Italian Riviera this month. La journaliste du Monde Josyane Savigneau renchérit : "Découvrir, en 1990, que des jeunes filles de 15 et 16 ans font l'amour avec un homme qui a trente ans de plus, la belle affaire !"

“These associations of the virtuous, how do they sleep, what do they do in bed and who do they sleep with, and their secret, repressed desires?”Mr. Other than his walks on the lungomare, he dines alone in the hotel restaurant. Mr. Matzneff said that another longtime ally — a powerful lawyer and author named Emmanuel Pierrat — introduced him to another publisher who gave it a second life.“I don’t disown a single line in it, not a word,” Mr. Matzneff wrote in a preface to the 2005 edition.Mr. He had learned the year before that he had prostate cancer.But even in his despair, he could still pull on some old strings.A major literary award, the Renaudot, had twice slipped through his fingers despite the fierce maneuverings of one juror: Mr. Giudicelli, the writer to whom Mr. Matzneff had entrusted incriminating photos and letters of the 14-year-old Ms. Springora when he feared a police raid.Besides being a friend, Mr. Giudicelli was also one of Mr. Matzneff’s editors at Gallimard and a frequent traveling companion to Manila.Gallimard did not make Mr. Giudicelli, or anybody else at the publishing house, available for an interview.So close are the two men that they referred to each other by the rooms they occupied on their first stay at the Tropicana Hotel in Manila.“When it comes to conjuring up, here and there, in a short paragraph, memories of mischief and naughtiness about which we hardly feel guilty, my dear Eight-oh-four takes care to conceal his dear Christian under the protective wing of Eight-one-one,” Mr. Giudicelli In 2013, Mr. Giudicelli helped secure his friend the Renaudot prize, after studiously confiding Mr. Matzneff’s cancer diagnosis to his fellow jurors.“It’s an argument we heard a lot: ‘He needs it, the poor guy,’” recalled one of the jurors, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, a writer and editor.Dominique Bona, the only woman in the 10-member jury and a member of the French Academy, acknowledged that “friendships” played a part in awarding the prize to Mr. Matzneff.Mr.


Le Monde’s literary critic Matzneff receives an annual stipend of €6,000 from the national book centre CNL.

But unlike the United States and other countries with statutory rape laws — where those underage are considered too immature to fully consent to sexual relationships — France does not have an age of consent. In the case scheduled to start on Wednesday, Mr. Matzneff’s publishers and promoters could also be held to account — with the books as evidence.“We know of emotionally troubled men who justified pedophilia after reading Matzneff’s books,” said Méhana Mouhou, a lawyer for Mr. Matzneff disappeared in late December, just before the publication of Ms. Springora’s memoir. Up in his room, he rereads old, unpublished diaries. “We can say caution, but it’s more than caution from people I considered friends.”Mr. “But it made her angry?”Mr. Mr. Matzneff said he did not know when he would return to Paris. Matzneff, right, in Paris in 1990 with the French business tycoon Pierre Bergé, center, and Harlem Désir.Pierre Guillaud/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesVanessa Springora has published an account of being seduced by Mr. Matzneff when she was 14. “But no, he’s not in jail, he’s welcomed and pampered by the president of the Republic, Mitterrand.”The most public criticism came in 1990, on the literary television show “Apostrophes,” as the host and guests discussed Mr. Matzneff’s latest diary, “Mes Amours Décomposés,” (“My Decomposed Loves.”) In it, he boasted about having sex with countless minors, including 11- and 12-year-old Filipino boys he describes as “a rare spice.”The single foreigner present, Denise Bombardier, a journalist from Quebec, denounced his pedophilia.The reaction from France’s intelligentsia was swift.Josyane Savigneau, who was editor of a literary supplement of the French newspaper Le Monde from 1991 to 2005, publicly chided Ms. Bombardier and defended Mr. Matzneff’s work.In a recent interview, Ms. Savigneau recalled being revolted by some of Mr. Matzneff’s writings, but said his books were superior to others that landed on her desk.