This comment was on site for a long time before someone complained and it was then deleted. It is a bare statement of fact.; further evidence that the G&M will delete any comment that doesn't follow their PC agenda.

I wrote it to refute the claim by someone that the French have a different  attitude to sex than "WASPish" countries.


The French are no different from other countries when it comes to child abuse. The age of consent for sex is 15 in France - 18 when one partner is in a position of power like a school teacher.

Macron's parents did not report his teacher because they were afraid of what might happen if she were prosecuted. They were aware of the case of Gabrielle Russier - a teacher who killed herself at 32 after being sentenced to a year in prison in 1969 for sex with a 16-year-old pupil. That's eight years less than the age gap of Macron and Trogneux.