7 women and 29 men. Here is now the composition of the French Academy, after the election this Friday of the philosopher Sylviane Agacinski to replace Jean-Loup Dabadie, who died three years ago, reports the French Academy on its website, confirming information from Le Figaro and Le Point.
Sylviane Agacinski, 78, was elected with 13 votes out of 23 voters (including 7 refusal), against the historian Bertrand Lançon who obtained only one vote. The candidacies of Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Olivier Barrot, Benoît Duteurtre, Frédéric Beigbeder, Eric Neuhoff and Alain Borer had been rejected earlier, says Le Figaro.
Sylviane Agacinski, who married Lionel Jospin in 1994, has authored numerous works including "Gender Policy", "Gender Drama", "Women between sex and gender" or even more recently "Facing a holy war", which focuses on the historical links between religion and politics and denounces the "intolerable promotion of the veiling of women" by Islamist proselytism.
Opposed to surrogacy and adoption for all
In "Corps en miettes", in 2009, Sylviane Agacinski was vehemently opposed to management for others, where we would put "sales for rent". "Propaganda in favor of surrogacy cannot hide the violence of such a practice. In the name of the dignity of the human person, this book calls for resistance," she wrote. In 2013, the philosopher had expressed "reservations about adoption" by homosexual couples and said she was ready to demonstrate against the law on marriage for all.
The French Academy will soon welcome a newcomer with the organization, on June 22, of a new vote to replace Marc Fumaroli, who died in June 2020. The objective of the Académie française is to "give certain rules to our language and to make it pure," says its statutes.