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Gisèle Pelicot Survived Mass Rape. Now She’s Looking to the Future.

New York Times 21 Feb 2026
Gisèle Pelicot stayed silent after dozens of men were convicted of raping her. Now, Ms. Pelicot is finding peace by publicizing her ordeal and explaining how she survived it ... .
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A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review: A paean to dignity in the face ...

London Evening Standard 20 Feb 2026
The Pelicots’ married life was initially happy. Was it her growing success that soured him? ... .
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'A Hymn to Life': Gisèle Pelicot's memoir of devastation and defiance

Kearney Hub 19 Feb 2026
PARIS — Gisèle Pelicot gives a detailed account in her memoir "A Hymn to Life" of years in which her husband drugged her and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious. "My life had become nothing but an ... .
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Hymns on Sunday, 22 February 2026

RNZ 19 Feb 2026
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions ... Hymns include Forty days and forty nights, and a beautiful Lenten anthem by 16th Century English composer Richard Farrant ... SONG ... Artist ... Words/Music ... SONG ... I hear the sweet though far off hymn.
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'A Hymn to Life': Gis\u00e8le Pelicot's memoir of devastation and defiance

Journal Gazette 18 Feb 2026
Rachel Sommer, dpa. PARIS — Gisèle Pelicot gives a detailed account in her memoir "A Hymn to Life" of years in which her husband drugged her and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious ... People are also reading… ... .
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Gisèle Pelicot’s powerful memoir A Hymn to Life: ‘Love is not dead. I am not dead’

The Irish Times 18 Feb 2026
A Hymn to Life ... It is impossible to read Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life without hearing its echo ... And yet A Hymn to Life is not, finally, a book about collapse ... Throughout A Hymn to Life, Gisèle returns to the language of memory and dissociation.
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Ancient Greeks Used Processed Ergot Fungus in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Study Finds

Greek Reporter 18 Feb 2026
A votive plaque depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Credit ... Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια) ... A ritual that crossed social boundaries ... κυκεών) ... The Mysteries drew their meaning from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed around the seventh century BCE ... ....
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A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure ...

The Guardian 17 Feb 2026
It is a mark of the power and honesty of Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir, A Hymn to Life ... I have read enough books by female survivors of male sexual violence to say with confidence that Hymn to Life is unique.
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'I don't want to live in hatred': Gisèle Pelicot publishes her memoir 'A Hymn to Life'

France24 17 Feb 2026
Pelicot's book "A Hymn to Life" covers the full arc of her story, including the trial she went through ... .
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A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power

The Observer 17 Feb 2026
I have read enough books by female survivors of male sexual violence to say with confidence that Hymn to Life is unique ... A Hymn to Life is alive with the kind of detail that wouldn’t ... A Hymn to Life.
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‘A Hymn to Life’ Review: Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Is a Powerfully Written Feminist Manifesto

New York Times 15 Feb 2026
With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed ... .
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Church of England to amass host of choirs in battle to save hymns

AOL 14 Feb 2026
The Church of England is to create an army of church choirs in an effort to revive interest in traditional hymns ... .
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