In A nondescript hotel room on the outskirts of Bordeaux, an elderly lady puts on a smart white skirt and top and applies lipstick. Today is a special day for 88-year-old Marthe Gautier. She has been invited to speak at a prestigious scientific conference, after which she will receive a medal acknowledging her part in one of the most important medical discoveries of the 20th century. It is to be her moment of vindication, but it never arrives. Earlier that day, two legal representatives turned up at the French Federation of Human Genetics conference bearing a court order allowing them to record her talk. They looked at Gautier's slides and pointed out sections that they said could be defamatory.
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