¶ The French press and the Parti Socialiste are being dragged into the Twentieth Century by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal. Anne Mansouret, the mother of Tristane Bonet, the journalist who now describes DSK as having been a “chimpanzee in rut” when he tried to rape her during an interview, regrets counseling her daughter to keep silent about the offense. And now that Ms Mansouret is talking about it, she faces expulsion from the PS. For decades, an able but pathologically libidinous man has been not only protected but nurtured by a code of silence that has no place in the future of France.

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