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The Trial of a Life won the Molière Award for Private Theatre in 2026, as well as the Molière Award for Living Francophone Author.<div> Summer 1971, 16-year-old Marie-Claire becomes pregnant. Although it's a crime punishable by law, she doesn't want to keep the child. She wants an abortion. Her mother, Michèle, and later Lucette, Renée, and Micheline, stand by her and do everything they can to help her. But the clandestine abortion goes wrong...</div><div><br></div><div> Autumn 1972. All the women found themselves indicted. A certain lawyer, Maître Gisèle Halimi, would orchestrate this trial, the Bobigny trial. Their courage shaped the rest of history.</div><div><br></div>