Marc Faye
RÉPUBLICATURE

THE MARRIAGE BONDS

In 1870, the cartoonist Alfred Le Petit paid tribute to the parliamentary Alfred Naquet, the “defender of free love”, whose law of 1884 allowed women to break their marriage contract.

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France 2021, 03:29

SLAVERY

In a drawing published in 1844, the cartoonist Honoré Daumier defends the abolition of slavery.

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France 2021, 04:20

1905

The journey of the cartoonist Jossot, from Gustave to Abdul Karim, has not finished questioning us about the debates that animate our contemporary society.

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France 2021, 03:56

SHE VOTED !

People often said that Hubertine Auclert was one little fireball ! And t's true, I was a major figure in the militancy in the struggle for women's rights.

France 2021, 03:38

LULU THE PILL-MAN

My real name is Lucien Neuwirth but people use to call me «Lulu the Pill-Man» since I legalized the contraceptive pill.

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France 2021, 03:55

IVG

The legalisation of abortion is one of the fundamental achievements of women's rights. It was the outcome of a struggle led by figures such as Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Veil, for whom the cartoonist Claire Bretécher acted as spokesperson in a famous poster.

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France 2021, 05:56

JUSTICE

In 1983 the former head of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, was arrested. Robert Badinter recounts the ambivalent feeling he had when he realised that by abolishing the death penalty two years earlier he had just saved the life of the man who had signed his father's deportation order to the Sobibor extermination camp.

France 2021, 02:56

DAT'S REAL GOOD?

On 23 February 2005, the radio announced a law project about the benefits of French colonization. This announcement disrupted the daily life of Louise and her family. Her house turns out to be inhabited by strange presences.

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France 2021, 04:22