The first day Gisèle Pelicot walked up the steps of the courthouse in Avignon in September 2024, she was an anonymous retired grandmother. Within weeks, this diminutive 72-year-old - the victim at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history, involving 51 men including her husband - had become a feminist icon. She was last seen in public when the verdicts - all guilty - were handed down in December. By then, crowds of supporters were chanting her name. On Monday Gisèle Pelicot returns to court, this time in Nîmes, for the appeal of the only one of the 51 defendants to challenge his sentence: Husamettin Dogan, 44, a married father of one. Between September and December last year, Gisèle's bleak story travelled the world. For over a decade, she had been drugged unconscious by her husband Dominique and raped by dozens of men he had recruited on internet chat rooms. Dominique Pelicot filmed the assaults and neatly catalogued them on a hard disk, allowing investigators to track down most individuals involved. After a trial lasting 16 weeks, 46 men were found guilty of rape, two of attempted rape and two of sexual assault. Husamettin Dogan's appeal next week will effectively be a retrial, with videos of Gisèle's rape shown again, while she attends as a witness. Gisèle has been thrust into the public eye, despite her desire for privacy, following the trial. The family dynamics have suffered; her eldest children have distanced themselves amid accusations and trauma. This unique case raises questions about how society views victims of sexual violence, the perception of consent, and the complexities of familial ties under immense public scrutiny.