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Novelist up before a court of honour ._x000D_
The summoning of M Victor Margueritte , before a committee of inquiry at the Chancellery of the Legion of Honour , has caused an immense sensation in France . The charge is apparently that in a novel he has traduced French Society and offended public morals ._x000D_
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23 December 1922_x000D_
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Margueritte's novel La Garçonne (1922) was considered so shocking it caused the author to lose his Légion d'honneur
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Novelist up before a court of honour .
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The summoning of M Victor Margueritte , before a committee of inquiry at the Chancellery of the Legion of Honour , has caused an immense sensation in France .
The charge is apparently that in a novel he has traduced French Society and offended public morals .
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23 December 1922_x000D_
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Margueritte's novel La Garçonne (1922) was considered so shocking it caused the author to lose his Légion d'honneur.
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