Starting from 1990s, luminaries of the May 1968 movement in Paris started to die, and their diaries and personal letters began appearing in the public for the first time. It was revealed that those well-known intellectuals preaching total freedom from bourgeois social mores, women’s social advancement, and anti-colonialism were systematically sexually exploiting their students, visiting North Africa for sex tourism, and, in one of the most shocking cases of the Marxist scholar, Louis Althusser, using the insanity defense to escape punishment after killing his wife.