Camille Kouchner (born 18 June 1975 in

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), is a

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and

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. With her book, ''La familia grande'', she initiated the Duhamel scandal.

Biography

Camille Kouchner was born on June 17, 1975, daughter of the doctor and politician

Bernard Kouchner Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in t ...

and the writer and political scientist

Évelyne Pisier Évelyne Pisier (18 October 1941 – 9 February 2017) was a French writer and political scientist. Biography Pisier was born in Hanoi on 18 October 1941. She was the daughter of a French senior civil servant, Georges Pisier (30 June 1910 – 1 ...

. She is the niece of the mathematician

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and of the actress and novelist

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. Following the divorce of her parents in 1984, she was partially brought up by her mother’s second husband, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel. She has two brothers, including a twin, as well as a half-sister and a half-brother adopted by her mother and Duhamel. In 2015, she clicked when she saw ''

Mon roi ''Mon Roi'', also known as ''My King'', is a 2015 French drama film directed by Maïwenn. The film stars Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel and Isild Le Besco (Maïwenn's sister). It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the ...

'', by

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, who had entrusted the role of her mother to her aunt

in ''

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'', which recounted the incestuous relationship between the director and her stepfather. At the beginning of January 2021, in her book ''La Familia grande'', Camille Kouchner accused her stepfather—Duhamel—of incest, rape and sexual assault "repeated for years": she wrote that, from 1988 to 1989, her stepfather regularly abused her twin brother (renamed Victor in the book) during his adolescence..

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