Blanche DuBois’ desperate response to Mitch’s inquiry as to her self-representation in A Streetcar Named Desire is pretty much the last button the caught-red-handed plagiarist can push. After you’ve failed to blame it on vague and treasonous “assistants,” or on your drug addiction, or overwork, or an obscure psychological condition, you may simply find yourself where the head of the school of journalism at Sciences Po, no less, finds herself. I “forgot to mention certain papers, but never voluntarily,” said Agnes Chauveau, but here she’s up against the fact that few human acts are more voluntary than plagiarism – especially the career plagiarism that has apparently been uncovered in her case.