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But now this liberation of speech has been turned on its head.
After experiencing the backlash to their backlash, Deneuve elaborated on the letters intent on Sunday night.
I am a free woman and I will remain so, the actress said inan open letter publishedbyLiberation.
I welcome all the victims of odious acts that may have felt aggrieved by this letter published inLe Monde.
It is to them and to them alone that I apologize.
I dont excuse anything.
Abortion was illegal in the country at the time.
Are we going to burn Sade from La Pleiade?
Designate Leonardo da Vinci as a pedophile artist and erase his paintings?
Take Gaugin off museum walls?
Destroy the drawings of Egon Schiele?
Ban Phil Spectors records?
This climate of censorship leaves me speechless and worried about the future of our societies.
Obviously nothing in the text claims that harassment is good, points out Deneuve.
Otherwise I would not have signed it.
