French Professor Faces Allegations of Massive Fraud After Creating Fake Nobel-Style Award
At a ceremony in the French National Assembly attended by Nobel laureates, former ministers, MPs, decorated scientists and academics, all eyes fell on a previously obscure literature professor.
Florent Montaclair, then 46, a balding, bespectacled man in an ill‑fitting suit and a rose‑coloured shirt, was receiving the 2016