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Long-silenced victim of a paedophile writer gets to tell her story

By Norimitsu Onishi
New York Times·
13 mins to read
Long-silenced victim of a paedophile writer gets to tell her story
Long-silenced victim of a paedophile writer gets to tell her story

For decades, the writer Gabriel Matzneff used Francesca Gee's image and letters to champion his sexual pursuit of adolescents. But her own account was rejected, until now.

In her telling, Francesca Gee was out with a girlfriend, a late autumn day in Paris in 1983, when they spotted a new

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