"Madame Emma Thompson is but passing through petitions," writes novelist and filmmaker Yann Moix on the website of Bernard-Henri Lévy's journal, La Règle du jeu, this morning. "She does not own, she is a tenant. Worse: she is there visiting, with the badge ‘guest.'"

He adds, "In life, we must choose between whims and ideas...We at La Règle du Jeu would like to now sign a petition that Madame Emma Thompson never again sign a petition, because it would not be her signature that would be ridiculed, but this time the cause."

(Translation courtesy of high school French and Google Translate, so let us know if we've missed something).

By the way, Thompson's name has already been removed from the petition. An associate of Lévy, Liliane Lazar, told us that it was Thompson's request to be removed by Wednesday.

Update: A native French speaker has weighed in and the translation has been tweaked accordingly, although the meaning remains the same.

Madame Emma Thompson "Se Retire" De La Pétition Pour Polanski Lancée Par La Règle Du Jeu!"

Earlier: Emma Thompson's Name to Be Removed from Polanski Petition This Week

Thompson, you see, disappointed many of her fans earlier this fall when she signed a petition — along with a host of other boldface names, including Salman Rushdie, Natalie Portman, and Diane Von Furstenburg — demanding that Polanski be freed on charges relating to his rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Luckily, Caitlin Hayward-Tapp was nowhere near as abstemious as the View ladies: last week, the 19-year-old Exeter University student gutsily convinced Thompson to remove her name from the petition demanding Polanski's freeing. But as of this morning, Thompson's name was still on the petition, which is hosted on the website of French public intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy.

After we contacted her a few hours ago, Ms. Thompson's publicist told us that her client "...requested that her name be removed when she said she would. We have asked for confirmation from them but have not yet received it."

We also asked Mr. Henri-Levy's camp for an update, and Liliane Lazar, a former French professor who worked with him on the petition, responded, saying that Thompson's name will be removed Wednesday. As for why it would take several days to remove a line from a posting on a webpage, Ms. Lazar has yet to say.

Related: Thompson Talked Out of Support For Polanski by 19-year-old Student [Independent]
Polanski Business: In Which Emma Thompson Breaks My Heart [Shakesville]
Dear Emma... [Shakesville]

Earlier: Emma Thompson To Remove Name From Polanski Petition?
Letters From Hollywood: Roman Polanski's Rape Of Child No Big Thing

However, Thompson immediately bucked our expectations by marching onto the set while brawling with a stuffed fox who would not let go until it got a firm disavowal of Love Actually. Sure, Thompson was most likely satirizing Letterman's previous guest, who had survived an animal attack on her own, but we prefer to think of Thompson's stunt as a singular, non sequitur bid for attention. You've won this round, Thompson. Now go do something at Ellen's dunk tank and we can really crank it up.

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