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France's Top Newspaper Apologizes for Anti-Trans Cartoon, Artist Quits Le Monde published a cartoon mocking sexual assault and transgender identity. France's leading newspaper has issued an apology for printing a transphobic cartoon. Le Monde published the offending cartoon Tuesday. In it, a smaller penguin asks a larger one, "If I was abused by the adopted half-brother of the partner of my transgender father who has now become my mother, is that incest?"  The artist, Xavier Gorce, was referring to a recent scandal involving Olivier Duhamel, a prominent French political voice who was accus...

Le Monde's Celebrated Cartoonist Plantu To Bow Out After 50 Years By Carole GUIRADO, Jean-Louis DE LA VAISSIERE 01/22/21 AT 6:39 AM The celebrated cartoonist of France's Le Monde daily Plantu said Friday that he would soon leave the paper after half a century of work that has seen him mock the elite in his country and elsewhere with bitingly acerbic drawings. The departure on March 31 of Plantu -- who has championed cartoons as a bastion of free expression -- comes as a freedom of speech debate is raging both at the venerable paper and in France. But Plantu, whose real name is Jean Plantu...

French Senate approves draft sex assault law to protect minors after Olivier Duhamel scandal Several public figures have spoken out on the issue, including first lady Brigitte Macron France toughened laws on the rape of children Credit: AP Photo/Francois Mori The French Senate on Thursday approved a new draft law to protect minors from sexual abuse in the wake of a controversy about incest.  The draft law makes it a crime for an adult to inflict any act of sexual penetration on minors under 13 years of age, and punishable by 20 years of prison. The draft legislation now requires approval fr...

Cartoonist resigns from French paper Le Monde in free speech row over incest Issued on: Le Monde newspaper headquarters in Paris. © Siegfried Forster / RFI 2 min French cartoonist Xavier Gorce has quit Le Monde after the newspaper issued an apology for publishing one of his cartoons earlier this week. The 18-year veteran of the centrist daily described his decision as "personal, unilateral and definitive". Advertising Read more France's intellectual elite was rocked this month by a claim that high-profile poli...

Copies of the French newspapers Le Monde and Le Figaro at a newsstand in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, on Jan. 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena) PARIS (AFP) — A leading French cartoonist on Wednesday said he would no longer work for Le Monde after the newspaper apologized for a cartoon he drew that tackled a sex-abuse scandal. France’s intellectual elite was rocked this month by a claim that political commentator Olivier Duhamel sexually abused his stepson, prompting social media users to speak out under the hashtag #MeTooInceste. In a cartoon published in Le Monde’s newsletter o...