Marie Tempête: Le secret d’Emilie

Author: Patrick Cothias and Pierre Wachs
Publication date: 2014
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About the Work

A graphic novel set in eighteenth-century France.

Challenges in Canada

In 2000, feminists in Hull, Que., began campaigning to remove adult comic books and graphic novels that depict violence against women from the city’s libraries. In 2001, they persuaded the city council to ban “all visual documents … that trivialize and/or condone acts of sexual aggression or sexual violence” from public libraries. Librarians reluctantly restricted access to 180 books.

In 2002, a public outcry in Quebec prompted politicians to repeal the ban, and the books returned to the open library shelves.

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