In “Le Déni”, Hélène Perlant, the daughter of François Bayrou, seeks to think about the inconceivable violence committed in Bétharram

Victim of beatings inflicted by a religious in the private school of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hélène Perlant probes letters and the arts in a new essay in an attempt to dissect the mechanisms of control and perversion which prepare the way for violence.