In her latest book, Camille Kouchner gives the floor to her brother, who would have been touched by their stepfather.
One more stone to “
give visibility to the incest that we hide, that we keep silent
”.
The daughter of former minister Bernard Kouchner and the academic Evelyne Pisier published Thursday "
La Familia grande
", published by Le Seuil, a title in Spanish which takes up the nickname given to a group of friends fascinated by the Cuban revolution.
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The accused man is a political and media figure: Olivier Duhamel, 70, former MEP.
He who immediately put an end to all the functions he held is subject to a judicial investigation.
Throughout the story, the 45-year-old author gives him only one name: "
my stepfather
".
She changes the first name of the victim, her brother, son of Bernard Kouchner aged 14 when the facts begin, to call him "
Victor
".
This testimony was kept secret until three days before its publication.
The exclusivity was reserved for
Le Monde
and
L'Obs on
Monday.
"
I do not reveal anything
"
If this story dating back to the late 1980s is brought to the attention of the general public, it was not completely ignored.
“
I'm not revealing anything in this book.
Everyone knows
”within this family, the author told
Le Monde
.
"
You'll see, they'll believe me but they won't give a damn about it
", predicted Camille Kouchner's brother, when he began to publicize his story to protect other children from his stepfather.
“
He was right,
” she says.
The silence which seems to have protected Olivier Duhamel, if the facts are proven, strongly recalls the one described by Vanessa Springora, a year earlier, in "
Le Consentement
", on her relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, 49 years old when she was 14. .
That Vanessa Springora's book was well received when it was released in January 2020, "
it did me a lot of good, yes,
" Camille Kouchner told
L'Obs
.
"
The public echo is not what I wanted, but it seemed necessary to me to give visibility to the incest that we hide, that we keep silent
".
"
You must read it
"
Other celebrity books had already broken this incest taboo.
The actress Catherine Allégret, in 2004, just after the first trial of the Outreau case, had recounted in “
A world upside down
” the touching, as a child, and the attempted rape, as an adult, of her step- “
abusive
”
father
Yves Montand.
The book is largely forgotten, and its author had been much criticized for accusing a dead person who could not defend himself.
Claude Ponti, author of children's books, had mentioned in the form of fiction, in "
Les Pieds Bleues
" in 1995, the sexual abuse he had suffered as a child.
He did not name a culprit but then named his grandfather.
Finally, Christine Angot had made the rapes committed by her father the subject of two very controversial novels, "
L'Inceste
" (1999) and "
Un amour impossible
" (2015).
“
You have to read Camille Kouchner.
You have to read it because it is the only possible consolation of what will never be consoled
, ”wrote on Twitter the novelist and journalist Tristane Banon, who denounced for years, without being heard, a sexual assault of a another famous man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The incest itself lasts little in this autobiographical testimony, about ten pages out of 200. It suddenly arises towards the middle of the book, when Victor says: "
He caressed me and then you know ...
" And his sister to deplore: "
By not designating what was happening, I participated in the incest
".
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