Last month, March 2021, during an interview on France TV-France 51 channel, philosopher Michel Foucault’s former friend and “right wing” columnist Guy Sorman (who’s 77 years old now), declared:

I think it is important to know when an author was or wasn’t a bastard (“salaud”). And when we learn that he was a bastard – just like Celine and Morand – we still can read his works. I’m not asking to burn Celine’s or Paul Morand’s books, but I believe it is important to know when an author was a terrible person. I’m talking about Foucault. What Foucault did with kids in Tunisia (in 1969) – and I saw it and I blame myself for not having denounced it at the time – drives me, not only to reject Foucault’s work, but to look back at it in a different way. It’s not about “cancel culture” like in the US, but we have to look at culture with a double sight. These things were completely despicable – with young children! – not to mention the problem of consent. They [the children] were not white, not even French. This is extremely ugly morally stuff.” Mainstream British Newspaper The Sunday Times2 was even more specific on the subject after interviewing Sorman: “Young children were running after Foucault saying ‘what about me? take me, take me’ he recalled … They were eight, nine, or ten years old. He was throwing money at them and would say ‘let’s meet at 10pm at the usual place.’ He would make love there on the gravestones with young boys. The question of consent wasn’t even raised.”