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“We cannot accept that an 11-year-old child can be deemed to consent when he has a sexual relationship with an adult. The words are from Emmanuel Macron, a very young tenant of the Élysée, in November 2017, in front of representatives of associations and magistrates. The Weinstein affair broke out, the president promises to make the fight against violence against women a “national cause”, and among the measures mentioned, the fixing of an age below which a child could not be considered sexually consenting.