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by accompanying all the great feminist fights from within includ-ing the struggles for legalised, free abortion and contraception or for the recognition of rape as a crime, requiring to be heard by the cour d’assises (the criminal trial court) and not by the tribunal correctionnel (dealing with penal matters). While the first accusa-tions date back to the beginning of the MLF, the feminist cam-paign against rape and more generally against violence against women, gained momentum during the second half of the 1970s following the trial of Anne and Aracelli, two young women raped in the Calanques in Marseille during the summer of 1975. On June 26, 1976 the event “Dix heures contre le viol” (“Ten hours against rape”)