Diane de Vignemont
@diane2v.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, always open to commissions
✍️ New Lines Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Jacobin Magazine
Libération, L'Humanité Magazine, Arrêt sur images, Causette, Têtu·, Retronews, France-Amérique Magazine
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✍️ New Lines Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Jacobin Magazine
Libération, L'Humanité Magazine, Arrêt sur images, Causette, Têtu·, Retronews, France-Amérique Magazine
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Diane de Vignemont
@diane2v.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France’s Mass Rape Trial
An Avignon courthouse has become a site of pilgrimage for French women seeking catharsis and community
newlinesmag.com
« Une pour toutes, toutes pour une ». Pour @newlinesmag.bsky.social, mon reportage au procès dit des viols de Mazan à Avignon. Un moment de solidarité et de sororité hors du commun. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/gi...
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New Epstein emails that mention Donald Trump have been released by House Democrats. As @diane2v.bsky.social wrote in September, the people often missing from the political debate are Epstein’s victims.
Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New Epstein emails that mention Donald Trump have been released by House Democrats. As @diane2v.bsky.social wrote in September, the people often missing from the political debate are Epstein’s victims.
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“The Louvre has not simply been robbed. It has been abandoned.” @Diane2v.bsky.social writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Even Before the Heist, the Louvre Had Been Robbed
The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
newlinesmag.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“The Louvre has not simply been robbed. It has been abandoned.” @Diane2v.bsky.social writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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For @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I argue that to truly understand why the Libyan affair led to Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy
The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
newlinesmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
For @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I argue that to truly understand why the Libyan affair led to Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
The Louvre burglars may have escaped with eight glittering relics of empire, but the larger theft has been unfolding for years, and exposes the slow erosion of France's state-funded culture. My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
Even Before the Heist, the Louvre Had Been Robbed
The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
newlinesmag.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The Louvre burglars may have escaped with eight glittering relics of empire, but the larger theft has been unfolding for years, and exposes the slow erosion of France's state-funded culture. My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
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The Louvre is no longer the emblem of continuity Emmanuel Macron once invoked; it is the mirror of state fragility, writes @Diane2v.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Even Before the Heist, the Louvre Had Been Robbed
The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
newlinesmag.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Louvre is no longer the emblem of continuity Emmanuel Macron once invoked; it is the mirror of state fragility, writes @Diane2v.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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NEW: The Louvre is no longer the emblem of continuity Emmanuel Macron once invoked; it is the mirror of state fragility, writes @diane2v.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
Even Before the Heist, the Louvre Had Been Robbed
The crime shocked France, but earlier cuts and neglect had already stripped museums of the means to protect the country's heritage
newlinesmag.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
NEW: The Louvre is no longer the emblem of continuity Emmanuel Macron once invoked; it is the mirror of state fragility, writes @diane2v.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
newlinesmag.com/argument/eve...
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Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. Read @diane2v.bsky.social's look into the former French president's ties to Libya, and the plane crash that helped bring Sarkozy down, in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy
The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
newlinesmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. Read @diane2v.bsky.social's look into the former French president's ties to Libya, and the plane crash that helped bring Sarkozy down, in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
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How the Prince Andrew saga overshadowed Virginia Giuffre's tragic life
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
How the Prince Andrew saga overshadowed Virginia Giuffre's tragic life
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
www.newstatesman.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
How the Prince Andrew saga overshadowed Virginia Giuffre's tragic life
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
Amid the royal fallout, we should not forget Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
For @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I argue that to truly understand why the Libyan affair led to Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy
The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
newlinesmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
For @newlinesmag.bsky.social, I argue that to truly understand why the Libyan affair led to Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
With the spotlight on Prince Andrew’s alleged conduct, it’s worth re-reading @diane2v.bsky.social’s take on the Epstein birthday book—why does the media coverage focus on the men instead of the girls?
Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names
On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
With the spotlight on Prince Andrew’s alleged conduct, it’s worth re-reading @diane2v.bsky.social’s take on the Epstein birthday book—why does the media coverage focus on the men instead of the girls?
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C'était ça, ou recevoir les familles des 54 victimes françaises de l'attentat contre le DC-10 d'UTA organisé en 1989 par le terroriste que les ex-collaborateurs et coaccusés de Sarkozy ont rencontré secrètement.
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
C'était ça, ou recevoir les familles des 54 victimes françaises de l'attentat contre le DC-10 d'UTA organisé en 1989 par le terroriste que les ex-collaborateurs et coaccusés de Sarkozy ont rencontré secrètement.
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A retrial in the landmark French abuse case of Gisèle Pelicot is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case of Gisèle Pelicot is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
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After a short hiatus, The Backlash is back! With reads on Gaza, Xi’s “patriarchal turn”, the manosphere, “juvenile illiberalism”, the anti-abortion playbook in the UK, and Virginia Guiffre. Links to stuff by @emmahaslett.bsky.social, @diane2v.bsky.social and others
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October 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
After a short hiatus, The Backlash is back! With reads on Gaza, Xi’s “patriarchal turn”, the manosphere, “juvenile illiberalism”, the anti-abortion playbook in the UK, and Virginia Guiffre. Links to stuff by @emmahaslett.bsky.social, @diane2v.bsky.social and others
open.substack.com/pub/thebackl...
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my latest, for Jacobin Magazine
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention.
But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass judgement on the rapists.
But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass judgement on the rapists.
The Pelicot Trial Exposes France’s Jury Problem
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass judgement on the rapists.
jacobin.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
my latest, for Jacobin Magazine
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury.
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
The Pelicot Trial Exposes France’s Jury Problem
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass ...
jacobin.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury.
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury.
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
The Pelicot Trial Exposes France’s Jury Problem
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass ...
jacobin.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury.
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom.
My latest, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/peli...
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
Husamettin Dogan appealed his conviction for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot. His sentence was increased by one year—“a recognition that denial itself is a form of cruelty,” writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Husamettin Dogan appealed his conviction for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot. His sentence was increased by one year—“a recognition that denial itself is a form of cruelty,” writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
In my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial.
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial.
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
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The second time around can we possibly hope for signs of an effort to limit “secondary victimization?” @diane2v.bsky.social Merci Gisèle
In my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial.
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The second time around can we possibly hope for signs of an effort to limit “secondary victimization?” @diane2v.bsky.social Merci Gisèle
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
Such an important article.
In my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial.
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Such an important article.
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @diane2v.bsky.social reports on an appeal in the Gisèle Pelicot case.
Plus: @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social speak to @jim.londoncentric.media about his media start-up @londoncentric.media.
Plus: @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social speak to @jim.londoncentric.media about his media start-up @londoncentric.media.
Gisèle Pelicot returns to court
Plus: can London Centric revive local journalism?
prospectmagazine.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @diane2v.bsky.social reports on an appeal in the Gisèle Pelicot case.
Plus: @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social speak to @jim.londoncentric.media about his media start-up @londoncentric.media.
Plus: @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social speak to @jim.londoncentric.media about his media start-up @londoncentric.media.
My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
To truly understand why the Libyan affair will have Sarkozy sleeping in jail for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
To truly understand why the Libyan affair will have Sarkozy sleeping in jail for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy
The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi
newlinesmag.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My latest, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
To truly understand why the Libyan affair will have Sarkozy sleeping in jail for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
To truly understand why the Libyan affair will have Sarkozy sleeping in jail for criminal conspiracy, we must go back to a 1989 terror attack, and to the families who have carried its weight ever since. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-...
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case of Gisèle Pelicot is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case of Gisèle Pelicot is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court, writes @diane2v.bsky.social.
Reposted by Diane de Vignemont
"'Victims are always humiliated in court.' The words left Gisèle Pelicot’s lips with disarming calm, yet in the Nîmes courtroom they struck like a gavel—an indictment of French justice itself."
@diane2v.bsky.social's dispatch for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
@diane2v.bsky.social's dispatch for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"'Victims are always humiliated in court.' The words left Gisèle Pelicot’s lips with disarming calm, yet in the Nîmes courtroom they struck like a gavel—an indictment of French justice itself."
@diane2v.bsky.social's dispatch for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
@diane2v.bsky.social's dispatch for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
In my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial.
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot’s pedagogy of justice
A retrial in the landmark French abuse case is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial.
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
Gisèle Pelicot's lawyers didn't just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...