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Drawing by Fran\u00e7oise, 1942<\/em><\/p>\n Info:<\/span> publication of a dedication to Colette<\/a> (1951) and a letter to Fran\u00e7oise from the Iranian Resistance in exile<\/a> (1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n ————————<\/p>\n In early 1945, Fran\u00e7oise was marked for life by a terrible experience that she recounts in Les Monstres de l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/a><\/em> (The Monsters of Summer). The 25-year-old woman, weakened by deprivation, helped carry survivors of the camps on stretchers at the Lyon-Perrache train station. She wrote a chilling account of the experience: <\/p>\n “Ces gar\u00e7onnets rachitiques et chauves, aux oreilles d\u00e9coll\u00e9es, au yeux fous, hypertrophi\u00e9s, c’\u00e9tait des femmes…”‘<\/em><\/p>\n The history of the Jewish people haunts her work, from Le complexe de Diane to L’Evangile selon V\u00e9ronique, her last book, as Danielle Roth-Johnson<\/a> mentions in the first volume of Causes Comunnes<\/a><\/em>. So when John Paul II asked for forgiveness (mainly on April 13, 1986, and March 26, 2000) for the atrocities committed against them, Fran\u00e7oise had not forgotten the deafening silence of Pius XII during the Holocaust, whose more than ambiguous attitude would be confirmed by the opening of the Vatican archives in March 2020. <\/p>\n And this honorable apology is not enough for her; another atrocious moment in the history of the Church must be brought to light. She publishes an Open Letter to John Paul II.<\/a> <\/p>\n “Votre Saintet\u00e9, Nous avons applaudi avec la plus grande joie l’amende honorable de l’Eglise devant l’infortun\u00e9 peuple juif si longtemps pers\u00e9cut\u00e9 pour la fausse accusation de d\u00e9icide.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Mais il est une autre cat\u00e9gorie humaine comptant par dizaines de milliers les victimes accus\u00e9es, tortur\u00e9es, et br\u00fbl\u00e9es sans recours pendant deux si\u00e8cles (1450-1650) qui rel\u00e8ve \u00e9galement – du moins principalement – de la responsabilit\u00e9 papale[…] <\/span><\/span><\/em>pour […] laquelle […] une amende honorable serait aussi \u00e9quitable que celle concernant le peuple d’Isra\u00ebl.<\/em>“…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is a very formal introduction. It reflects Fran\u00e7oise’s complex feelings toward Christianity, the religion of her birth, which she left before joining the Communist Party in 1946. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When she wrote this letter, Fran\u00e7oise did not bother with the usual formalities used when addressing powerful figures. Subjectively, I see this as a concession in the form of thanks mixed with subtle humor. For after leaving it, she would never again recognize this Church, which she called Pauline, and therefore, for her, anti-physical and patriarchal. This did not prevent her from considering the spiritual as fundamental to our species, as in the RV de l’Histoire in 2004<\/a><\/em>. And she showed a keen interest in the figure of Christ and the Gospels, especially the apocryphal ones. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “…<\/span><\/span>nous voulons parler du sexocide des sorci\u00e8res.[…]<\/span><\/span>Sexocide est le mot juste puisqu’il s’agit, sous pr\u00e9texte de sorcellerie, d’une misogynie […] <\/span><\/span> port\u00e9e au paroxysme par les \u00e9crits des P\u00e8res de l\u2019\u00c9glise autant que par les brillants th\u00e9ologiens que furent Tertullien et Orig\u00e8ne. Les insultes et les anath\u00e8mes de cette tradition o\u00f9 brillent Thomas d’Aquin, Jean Chrysostome et Saint J\u00e9r\u00f4me entre tant d’autres docteurs pr\u00e9par\u00e8rent de longue date cette \u00ab chasse aux sorci\u00e8res \u00bb qui fut avant tout une \u00ab chasse aux femmes \u00bb. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Fran\u00e7oise has just published Le sexocide des Sorci\u00e8res<\/a><\/em> (The Sexocide of the Witches). In the sequel to her Letter, she revisits the history of this massacre. She evokes the <\/span><\/span>Dominican Jakob Sprenger, “a sex-obsessed man bordering on psychopathology,<\/em>” and Kramer, authors of Malleus Maleficarum<\/a><\/em>, (an indispensable book for any good witch hunter), and Pope Innocent VIII, “who gave his imprimatur to this vast call to murder” and who “was a perfect debauchee whose orgies fueled the anguish of sin and the horror of the daughters of Eve.<\/em>“<\/p>\n She also sees in this manual, which she describes as “a prelude to Mein Kampf<\/em>,” very convincing evidence of heresy:<\/p>\n “…<\/span><\/span>un des dogmes les plus \u00e9tablis de l\u2019\u00c9glise est l’effacement du p\u00each\u00e9 originel par le sang du Christ. […] <\/span><\/span>Or, Kramer et Sprenger attribuent \u00e0 une cat\u00e9gorie sp\u00e9cifique de l’humanit\u00e9 un p\u00e9ch\u00e9 natif, sp\u00e9cifique, qui le met hors l’humain, en d\u00e9pit du bapt\u00eame. <\/span><\/span>Pourquoi ne d\u00e9non\u00e7a-t-on jamais l’outrecuidance h\u00e9r\u00e9tique de cette d\u00e9claration ? […] <\/span><\/span>Si inique que fut la pers\u00e9cution du Juif, une issue lui \u00e9tait offerte : il pouvait se faire baptiser par l’eau saine.[…] <\/span><\/span>Mais la femme \u00e9tait condamn\u00e9e d’avance et sans pouvoir se changer en homme.[…] <\/span><\/span>C’est ainsi qu’on put voir l’\u00e9v\u00eaque de Tr\u00eaves faire br\u00fbler des fillettes de sept ans puisqu’\u00e0 cet \u00e2ge elles devenaient femmes…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>“<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Below is a list of documented abuses by region in Europe, with the proportion of women and men condemned to be burned at the stake, as well as a discussion of the parallels between the persecution of Jews and women, in which she quotes historian Jean Delumeau: “Anti-Semitism and witch hunts coincided.<\/em>” Then she comes to her final point: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ” <\/span><\/span>Mais il est un autre territoire de la mal\u00e9diction auquel touche celui du f\u00e9minin[…] c’est l’homosexualit\u00e9. <\/span><\/span>Le \u00ab p\u00e9ch\u00e9 muet \u00bb, le plus horrible […] <\/span><\/span>depuis la l\u00e9gislation de Constantin {…] <\/span><\/span> puise son abomination dans le fait que l’homme imite la femme, alors \u00ab qu’il a le bonheur de ne pas en \u00eatre une \u00bb comme le dira un d\u00e9vot de l’abb\u00e9 de Choisy. Sorcellerie fait toujours supposer \u00ab bougrerie \u00bb. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n […]<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Touchant d’un c\u00f4t\u00e9 \u00e0 la question juive et de l’autre \u00e0 la condamnation de l’homosexualit\u00e9, la sorci\u00e8re a donc repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 pendant deux si\u00e8cles d’horreurs et de supplices inflig\u00e9s par une culture int\u00e9griste, le summum de l’allergie au f\u00e9minin d\u00e9j\u00e0 si largement manifest\u00e9e, et au plus haut niveau, depuis les premiers si\u00e8cles de l\u2019\u00c9glise triomphante.”<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n […]<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n “<\/span><\/span>L’indignation qu’\u00e9prouvent les femmes aujourd’hui, surtout si elles appartiennent \u00e0 cette \u00c9glise ou cette religion, est d’autant plus v\u00e9h\u00e9mente que l\u2019\u00c9vangile, \u00ab sur lequel Pierre a b\u00e2ti son \u00c9glise \u00bb, est de tous les livres sacr\u00e9s que conna\u00eet le monde le seul qui soit f\u00e9ministe.”<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Was Fran\u00e7oise familiar with the Anglo-Saxon ecofeminist theologians<\/a> who have been active since the 1980s? She may have heard of them, but probably did not read their works, as they had not been translated until recently. A search of her unpublished works related to Christianity<\/a> may help to clear up this uncertainty. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And she concluded as she had begun:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span><\/span>Voil\u00e0 pourquoi nous attendons de Votre Saintet\u00e9 une amende honorable de la m\u00eame inspiration qui lui dicta la d\u00e9ploration du g\u00e9nocide m\u00e9di\u00e9val des Juifs lav\u00e9s de leur accusation de d\u00e9icide, alors que les \u00ab sorci\u00e8res \u00bb ne le furent jamais d’une accusation encore plus insens\u00e9e. Et nous assurons Votre Saintet\u00e9 de votre confiance en Son sens de la Justice dont elle a donn\u00e9 pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment un si \u00e9quitable et si parfait exemple.” <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Almost thirty years later, the fundamental question raised in this Letter remains relevant. While recent historical research has reduced the number of victims and shed new light on the reality of the trials and the functioning of institutions, the fact remains that hostility towards women, and more broadly fear of the feminine, was indeed the fundamental reason behind this episode, since it was an integral part of the Church. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How much of this fear does she still carry today, and for how long? Is it a sign of her condemnation, or will she find a way to wash away the father of all her sins?<\/p>\n *** Translated with www.DeepL.com\/Translator*** <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drawing by Fran\u00e7oise, 1942 Info: publication of a dedication to Colette (1951) and a letter to Fran\u00e7oise from the Iranian Resistance in exile (1994) ———————— The shock In early 1945, Fran\u00e7oise was marked for life by a terrible experience that she recounts in Les Monstres de l’\u00e9t\u00e9 (The Monsters of Summer). 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The shock<\/h5>\n
Address to John Paul II<\/h5>\n
The story of a sexocide<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
A heretical manual<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
Allergies in women<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
A Letter That Stood the Test of Time<\/h5>\n