Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema ( Emmanuelle, la plus longue caresse du cinéma français), Clélia Cohen, 2021

In 1974, the French erotic film Emmanuelle broke audience records: almost 350 million viewers worldwide and a twelveyear run on the Champs Elysées in Paris. After the success of the sexually explicit Last Tango in Paris, Emmanuelle appeared at a turning point in French society: The sexual emancipation following May 68 in France.