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- ↑ Jaccard, Roland. "Les femmes et la folie" Le Monde. June 13, 1975. Accessed 2016-06-16. The quote in French reads: "Réquisitoire violent et tendre, juste et injuste à la fois, Les femmes et la folie, comme tout livre important, a l'immense mérite de 'troubler le sommeil du monde'."