Paris (AFP)
The publishing house Stock announced Thursday the cessation of the marketing of the book "A devil in the font" by Gabriel Matzneff.
Stock is the fourth publisher after Gallimard, La Table ronde and Léo Scheer to stop marketing books by the writer under a preliminary investigation for rapes of minors under the age of 15.
Published in 2017, "A devil in the holy water font" is a collection of chronicles published under this title in Le Point by the 83-year-old writer.
The director of the weekly announced Sunday that the writer had decided to end his collaboration with the magazine.
"He wrote to us on December 8 to say that he was quitting. He was the one who decided, he probably knew that Vanessa Springora's book was going to be released so he sent us this letter," said Etienne Gernelle on France Culture.
Tuesday, Gallimard editions had decided to interrupt the sale of the author's journal, published for thirty years by this house. A first, followed by the editions of The Round Table (Madrigall group managed by Antoine Gallimard). This house had published five volumes of Gabriel Matzneff's journal, between 1979 and 1992.
On Wednesday, Léo Scheer editions also announced the end of the marketing of the author's journal volume, "Les Carnets noirs 2007-2008", and of the book "Les Less than 16 ans" which evoke the pedophile practices of the writer.
The justice opened a preliminary investigation for rape on minors of less than 15 years against the writer the day after the publication of the book "The Consent", of the editor Vanessa Springora.
In this book, this 47-year-old woman tells how she was seduced by Gabriel Matzneff at the age of 13, the relationship she had with him afterwards and the wounds that it left her.
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