TY - BOOK AU - Dhoquois,Régine TI - Negationist Theses and Freedom of Expression in France PY - 2006///. N1 - 52 N2 - To combat the revisionist views which deny the existence of gas chambers and the Holocaust during World War II, France has supplemented its antiracist legal apparatus with a special law, the « Gayssot act » (July 1990). This article analyses the history and implementation of that law through judicial decisions. It questions its legitimacy, its role, the concept of « misuse of law », its effects on freedom of speech and on the search for historical truth UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2006-1-page-27?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -