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Maud Marin - Le Saut de l'ange

Original title: "Le Saut de l'ange" (The Leap of the Angel). This is the first biography of Maud Marin.

'Is it possible to imagine the life of a man who hates his sex? The book is a terrifying diary of a person whose stigma of otherness casts a shadow over her whole life. The family does not "see" the problem. They stubbornly claim that Maud is a male person, despite the fact that she is more and more boldly declaring her femininity. Such behavior leads Maud to descend into the darkness of nightlife on the street - sex work and the criminal underworld.

After many years of humiliation, Maud manages to change gender. But this is only the beginning of the battle for a dignified life. After all, you have to change your birth certificate, get a job, arrange your life like a normal woman. Will she succeed?'

Maud Marin, born Jean Planchard on 28 June 1945, is a French lawyer and writer, known for being the first trans lawyer. Jean did not accept his male body. Having announced to her parents her intention to transition, she was rejected by her parents and in order to survive she had to become a call girl, first in the Bois de Boulogne and then in London.

She underwent gender reassignment surgery in Brussels, at the age of 29, on October 8, 1974. Thanks to the support from Simone Veil, she managed to give up selling her body on the streets and obtained a law degree, being registered at the Paris Bar as a trainee lawyer and becoming the world's first transgender lawyer. She joined the Paris Bar and practiced her new profession by helping French call girls.

She also published two autobiographical books, which earned her media notoriety in the 1980s: Le Saut de l'ange (1987), devoted to her transsexuality, and Tristes plaisirs (1989), about her experience of being a call girl.

In 1991, she published Le Quartier des maudites, a book devoted to women's prisons. In 1996, she published a new book, "Pitié pour les victimes" (Pity for Victims), in which she criticized the justice system for caring more about the fate of offenders than the suffering of victims.

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