French women’s minister ignites gay schoolbook row

It would mean plunging into the relationship between artist and film maker
Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais, his lover and lead actor in many of his films,
he said.

Writing on Nouvel Observateur’s website, Yves Delahaie, a secondary
schoolteacher, said: “One wonders whether our minister has recently
opened a schoolbook.” He said any self-respecting biography of Rimbaud
would “not dream of hiding the poet’s homosexuality”, which he
called a “cliché of French literature”.

“In the same way, one doesn’t study Plato or Socrates without speaking of
homosexuality (or even paedophilia) among the Greeks in sixth form classes.”
“But is it really necessary to know about Rimbaud and (Paul) Verlaine’s
idyll to grasp the meaning of Le Dormeur du Val?”

“It is not our place to posthumously “out” historical figures,
if anything because they did not choose to talk about it in a public way
themselves.”

Given the strong reactions, Miss Vallaud-Belkacem said “peoples should
avoid caricaturing the issue” and that “the government doesn’t
write the schoolbooks.” She said the current problem was that French
children who may be discovering their homosexuality “cannot identify
with anyone and thus consider themselves abnormal. It is this suffering one
should take into consideration.”

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