The high school students of Pierre-Gilles-de-Gennes (around eighty) attended the screening of the documentary, bad girls directed by Emérance Dubas, released in October 2022.
This story, carried by casting director Fabienne Bichet, recounts her ordeal and the shocking fate of these young teenagers who were very quickly locked up in the Good Shepherd establishments.
Born under X in 1956, at the Hospice Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris, Fabienne Bichet describes her childhood as an obstacle course strewn with pitfalls and moral, physical and sexual violence. As a teenager, she was placed in reformatories, managed by religious congregations. The young girls did not go to school and their daily lives were devoted to housework, cleaning and various tasks. In 1974, Valery Giscard d’Estaing lowered the majority to 18 years, Fabienne Bichet was then thrown out alone, without protection. She quickly becomes prey to prostitution networks.
Even at this time, the white slave trade was still going on, the young girl was then sold to a network and destined to leave for Tangier to supply Moroccan brothels, she managed to escape by jumping through the toilet window. Fabienne Bichet endured this sinister existence for many years when the worst was predicted for her.
By sheer willpower to get by, she took correspondence courses and worked in restaurants. She meets a boy who will help her get back on her feet by working in a hospital, then she manages to find a job as a hostess, and one thing leads to another, she enjoys a rapid rise in the world of cinema where Antoine de Caunes hired him as casting director at Canal +. Fabienne Bichet has held this position for thirty years and, for the past five years, she has taught at university.
