French minister Marlène Schiappa owes some of her recent fame to her frisky yet confusing decision to pose for the April issue of French Playboy—dressed, but suggestively so.
“How cheeky and modern!” one may have thought of this 40-year-old former blogger and feminist activist, who continues to write erotic fiction while holding high-profile posts under Macron, most recently as secretary of state in charge of economic justice and associative life. (Here she’s in illustrious company: current Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, just came out with the novel Fugue Américain, in parts highly NSFW.)
