Robert Badinter, lawyer and philosopher, died this Friday. He and his wife, philosopher and feminist, Élisabeth, had three children.
The couple married in 1966 and had a garden in Luxembourg. They only took up the pen together once, in 1988, for a biography of Condorcet, an authentic spirit of the Enlightenment - the historical period that fascinatedÉlisabeth. “Love is like a nine-year lease. This is why Robert regularly puts the ring on my finger,” confided Elisabeth in ‘Robert and Elis Elizabeth Badinter,. two children of the Republic’