The Epstein scandal has punctured all the age-old myths about the French elite | Agnès Poirier
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<p>Suddenly, venerable figures presumed immune to sordid compromise have been exposed – although some have shown that moral courage is possible</p><p>In 2016, the French luxury fashion house Hermès decided to pull an item it had donated to a charity auction after it appeared to have been bought by Jeffrey Epstein. In an <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02668653.pdf">email made public</a> in this month’s tranche of Epstein files, Epstei
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<p>Suddenly, venerable figures presumed immune to sordid compromise have been exposed – although some have shown that moral courage is possible</p><p>In 2016, the French luxury fashion house Hermès decided to pull an item it had donated to a charity auction after it appeared to have been bought by Jeffrey Epstein. In an <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02668653.pdf">email made public</a> in this month’s tranche of Epstein files, Epstei