<p class="title">Woody Allen's controversial autobiography "Apropos of Nothing" will finally be published in French in June after the first US edition was pulled and then pulped.</p>.<p>His French publisher Stock jumped to the veteran filmmaker's defence in March when Hachette staff in New York walked out when they learned that the company was printing his memoirs.</p>.<p>Allen has been dogged by persistent allegations that he sexually abused his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child -- claims he denies.</p>.<p>Her journalist brother Ronan Farrow said he would no longer work with Hachette -- which published his bestseller "Catch and Kill" -- before the books giant decided not to release the memoir.</p>.<p>But Stock's chief executive Manuel Carcassonne said Allen -- whose films are still popular in France -- was "not Roman Polanski", a reference to the filmmaker accused of raping a number of women.</p>.<p>He said Allen "had been cleared twice" by the courts of abuse and "there was no moral or legal obstacle to publishing and supporting him", Carcassonne told French media.</p>.<p>A smaller US imprint, Arcade, picked up the rights to Allen's book and it has since become an Amazon bestseller.</p>.<p>Stock had been due to release the book in France on April 29, but with bookshops shut by the coronavirus lockdown, said it would now appear on June 3.</p>.<p>The book has also been published in Spanish and Italian.</p>.<p>Allen settled a $68 million (62 million euros) lawsuit against Amazon Studios in November after it scrapped a four-film deal with the 84-year-old for his comments on the #MeToo movement.</p>
<p class="title">Woody Allen's controversial autobiography "Apropos of Nothing" will finally be published in French in June after the first US edition was pulled and then pulped.</p>.<p>His French publisher Stock jumped to the veteran filmmaker's defence in March when Hachette staff in New York walked out when they learned that the company was printing his memoirs.</p>.<p>Allen has been dogged by persistent allegations that he sexually abused his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child -- claims he denies.</p>.<p>Her journalist brother Ronan Farrow said he would no longer work with Hachette -- which published his bestseller "Catch and Kill" -- before the books giant decided not to release the memoir.</p>.<p>But Stock's chief executive Manuel Carcassonne said Allen -- whose films are still popular in France -- was "not Roman Polanski", a reference to the filmmaker accused of raping a number of women.</p>.<p>He said Allen "had been cleared twice" by the courts of abuse and "there was no moral or legal obstacle to publishing and supporting him", Carcassonne told French media.</p>.<p>A smaller US imprint, Arcade, picked up the rights to Allen's book and it has since become an Amazon bestseller.</p>.<p>Stock had been due to release the book in France on April 29, but with bookshops shut by the coronavirus lockdown, said it would now appear on June 3.</p>.<p>The book has also been published in Spanish and Italian.</p>.<p>Allen settled a $68 million (62 million euros) lawsuit against Amazon Studios in November after it scrapped a four-film deal with the 84-year-old for his comments on the #MeToo movement.</p>