Editing Catherine Deneuve (section)

==Political involvement==
[[File:Catherine Deneuve Césars 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|Deneuve at the [[36th César Awards|2011 César Awards]]]]
* In 1971, Deneuve signed the [[Manifesto of the 343]]. The manifesto was an admission by its signers to have had illegal abortions, and therefore exposed themselves to judicial actions and prison sentences. It was published in ''[[Le Nouvel Observateur]]'' on 5 April 1971. That same year, feminist lawyer [[Gisèle Halimi]] founded the group, Choisir ("To Choose"), to protect the women who had signed the Manifesto of the 343.
* Deneuve is involved with [[Amnesty International]]'s program to abolish the death penalty.
* In 2001, Deneuve delivered a petition organized by the French-based group, "Together Against the death penalty", to the U.S. Embassy in Paris.<ref name="deathpentaly">{{Cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/pm/1330501.stm | title = French horrified by execution | work = BBC News | date = 14 May 2001 | first = James | last = Coomarasamy | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045022/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/pm/1330501.stm | archive-date = 5 March 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
* In April 2007, Deneuve signed a petition on the internet protesting against the "misogynous" treatment of socialist presidential candidate [[Ségolène Royal]]. More than 8,000 French men and women signed the petition, including French actress [[Jeanne Moreau]].<ref name=royal>{{Cite news|url=http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1290483.php/Thousands_sign_petition_against_&quotmisogynous&quot_treatment_of_Royal |title=Thousands sign petition against "misogynous" treatment of Royal |work=Europe News on Monsters and Critics |publisher=Deutsche Presse-Agentur |date=12 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117024536/https://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1290483.php/Thousands_sign_petition_against_%26quotmisogynous%26quot_treatment_of_Royal |archive-date=17 January 2014 }}</ref>
*In 2011, among other French celebrities Deneuve signed a petition asking the future President of France to propose a vote at the [[United Nations General Assembly]] to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|orig-date=2011-06-23 |date= 2011-06-28|title=Dépénaliser l'homosexualité – tribune|work=[Le Monde]|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/06/23/depenaliser-l-homosexualite_1539857_3232.html}}</ref>
* In January 2018, Deneuve, along with 99 other French women writers, performers and academics, signed an open letter that argued the [[MeToo movement|#MeToo movement]] had gone too far, turning into a "witch hunt", and denounced it as a form of [[puritanism]], resulting in a backlash.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Catherine Deneuve and 100 French women denounce #MeToo 'puritanism' |url=https://www.dw.com/en/catherine-deneuve-and-100-french-women-denounce-metoo-puritanism/a-42084154|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Kim|last=Willsher|title=Catherine Deneuve's claim of #MeToo witch-hunt sparks backlash|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/10/catherine-deneuve-claim-metoo-witch-hunt-backlash|date=10 January 2018|website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref> Though she later apologized to all the victims who felt offended by the letter, she defended her involvement by saying there was "nothing in the letter" to ''[[Le Monde]]'' that said "anything good about harassment, otherwise [she] wouldn't have signed it".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42687157|title=Deneuve apologises to sex assault victims|work=BBC News|date=8 May 2018|access-date=8 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318123424/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42687157|archive-date=18 March 2018}}</ref>