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LeMonde
19-07-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
Paris brings back statues of pioneering women from 2024 Olympics ceremony
Paris on Friday, July 18, installed the first of 10 statues of pioneering French women displayed during the 2024 Olympics in a northern district of the capital. The first of them, a golden representation of the campaigning lawyer Gisèle Halimi, was set up in the capital's northern La Chapelle district on Friday. The 10 statues featured as part of the French capital's boundary-breaking opening ceremony for the Summer Games in July last year. They include Simone Veil, who spearheaded the legalisation of abortion in France, and the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir. Halimi, a Tunisian-born French lawyer who died five years ago aged 93, earned national fame for her role in a 1972 trial defending a minor who had an abortion after a rape. She ensured not only that the young woman, Marie-Claire Chevalier, was acquitted but also helped swing public opinion on the issue of reproductive rights. She was one of the most prominent of 343 women who in 1971 signed an open letter saying that they had had abortions. Michèle Zaoui, an architect working for the city of Paris, said the plan was to keep the statues in the neighborhood for a least a few more years until the opening of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. During artistic director Thomas Jolly's Olympics opening ceremony, the statues surged up from the waters of the Seine.
CairoScene
08-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Acidusa Honours Feminist Icon Gisèle Halimi With Acid Techno Release
The track, titled 'Gisèle', aims to deconstruct and reinvent the codes of post-modern feminism. Mar 08, 2025 Acidusa, a Paris-based DJ/producer duo that has been making noise across Europe with their inexhaustible energy and bold exploration of their Algerian cultural roots, has just unveiled a riotous double-single titled 'Gisèle', dedicated to the late renowned Tunisian-French lawyer and feminist icon Gisèle Halimi. A two-timed sonic diptych, assembling ticker tape bleeps, acid-licked basslines and hardcore techno, the track is based on one of Halimi's interviews, where she shares key moments of everyday sexism that led her to dedicate her life to defending women's rights. With this double-single, the duo aims to deconstruct and reinvent the codes of post-modern feminism. Acidusa · Gisèle Part 1 & 2
