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To: lorne who wrote (2012)	9/20/2002 9:07:45 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Re: In an essay in the newspaper Le Monde last week, the heads of three of France's biggest publishers wrote: "Literature's calling is not to appease but rather to worry and to offend. It is there to provoke. Otherwise, what is the point? Nothing human, or inhuman for that matter, is off limits to literature." LOL... What a whopper! Censorship is the name of the game when it comes to Europe's publishing biz. Here's a shortlist of people/issues you'd better not disparage: the royals (just ask Belgian author Pierre Mertens), the (Catholic) Church, WWII (just try to rummage about WWII icons like General De Gaulle or Jean Moulin, etc)