In classic “calumniate, calumniate, something will always stick” fashion, the far-left French newspaper Libération dropped a sleazy hit piece titled “The Men of Rue du Bac,” hurling grotesque pedocriminality accusations at intellectual figures from the 1970s and 1980s.
The star of this disgusting posthumous hit job? None other than Jean-François Revel — the brilliant French philosopher, essayist, former socialist turned pro-American, fierce anti-totalitarian, and author of masterpieces like Why Philosophers?, Neither Marx Nor Jesus, The Totalitarian Temptation, How Democracies Perish, and The Anti-American Obsession.
Revel, who died in 2006, has been dragged through the mud as some kind of masked sadistic predator in a supposed elite pedophile ring operating out of an apartment at 97 rue du Bac in Paris. This is tabloid-level character assassination of a dead man who can’t defend himself. And as usual with the legacy media left, it’s built on vapor.
No Evidence, No Problem: The “Sweaty Corpulent Man” Identification
The entire case against Revel rests on one single testimony — that of Inès Chatin, born in 1973, the adoptive daughter of Dr. Jean-François Lemaire, a self-confessed pedophile who has admitted to some of the horrors. Chatin claims she endured collective sexual torture and rapes from ages 4 to 7 (1977-1980), including being violated with metal objects by masked men. How does she “identify” the late academician Revel among these masked monsters? His “corpulence.” His strong body odor/smell of sweat.
That’s it. No name uttered. No face seen. No voice recognized. Just the foggy recollection of a small child — decades later — of a “fat, sweaty guy.” Even masked, apparently, Revel’s BO was so legendary it betrayed him. Did Revel have a monopoly on sweating in 1970s Paris? There is zero material evidence against him:
No photos
No videos
No letters
No recordings
No DNA
No agenda entries place him at the apartment during the alleged crimes
No witness corroboration
Even the audio recordings where Dr. Lemaire (now deceased) admits to some abuses and implicates others… never mention Revel once. Revel’s own agendas, preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, show no contact with Lemaire before June 21, 1983 — three years after the period Chatin accuses him of participating in the collective abuses. That day, he and his wife, Claude Sarraute, attended a lunch at Lemaire’s place and signed the narcissistic doctor’s “golden book.” His family and collaborators confirm no personal ties existed before then. A book by Revel found at Lemaire’s? That’s the smoking gun? Please.
Dig up a corpse to beat it
From Franco’s Spain to Revel’s France, the pattern is the same: the left loves exhuming and beating the bodies of those who opposed them. Revel’s children expressed “immense shock” at the accusations, noting they completely contradict everything they knew of their father. They called for the justice system to establish the facts. Outlets like Le Figaro, Commentaire, and Valeurs Actuelles have shredded the dossier as riddled with sloppy chronology, wild associations, and zero hard evidence. It’s a textbook post-mortem hatchet job.
Bottom Line: Innocent Until Proven Guilty — Even After Death
Jean-François Revel is not here to defend himself. But basic epistemology and justice demand evidence before destroying a man’s legacy with the worst possible accusations. There is none. This is a 21st-century witch trial and grotesque posthumous defamation orchestrated by the very circles that once cheered “liberatory” pedophilia: in 1977, *Libération* published a petition calling for the legalization of pedophilia.
The Revel family is reportedly considering legal action. They should. The corpse-defilers need to be held accountable.
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