FILE: Publisher to recount sexual "seduction", as 14 year old, by controversial French writer Matzneff The new head of the Juillard publishing house Vanessa Springora releases an autobiographical book on January 2, 2020, entitled "Le Consentement" (The Consent), in which she describes being seduced, at 14-years-old, by the then nearly 50-year-old writer Gabriel Matzeneff, whom she calls G., in the mid-1980s. Matzneff is a controversial figure in France, having written, in 1975, an essay entitled "Les moins de seize ans" (Those Under Sixteen), in which he describes his sexual preference for "young people" of both sexes. FILE IMAGES