A lecturer-researcher from Besançon is at the centre of a scandal rocking academia: he is suspected of having fabricated an international philology award in order to give it to himself. The ruse has seen him expelled from his university. This is the story of a professor of language science who mistook his grandiose dreams for reality.
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