The award-winning French novelist Nicolas Mathieu, although accepting that any sex scene taken out of context would look ridiculous, offered his own re-writing of the scene.
Olivier Varlan, a historian, joked on Twitter that the government should put in place a psychological hotline for people who had stumbled upon the chapter by accident. The satirist and comedian Sophia Aram read out the sex scene on France’s most popular radio station to a soundtrack of Spandau Ballet music amid jokes about the economy on its knees. Julia’s declaration, “I’ve never been this dilated”, sparked ridicule and became the topic of anti-government signs and graffiti at May day demonstrations across France. The public broadcaster France Info said that the sex scene, involving a character called Julia, had been greeted with “mockery and stupefaction”, while the French edition of the Huffington Post headlined its story “Bruno Le Maire has written about an anus and no one was ready for this.” But it was a sex scene in chapter 11 that has gone viral and prompted French satirists and protesters to ridicule Le Maire. The minister’s book is a fictionalised account of the pianist Vladimir Horowitz, told through the story of two brothers who travel to Cuba to attend one of his concerts. The novel was published hours before the credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded the country’s debt worthiness last week, feeding accusations from leftwingers that writing the novel had taken Le Maire’s focus off the economy and inflation.
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