Gisèle also gave her "profound" thanks to her supporters and said she had "confidence" in there being a "better future" where men and women can live in mutual respect.

“This underscores the profound impact that human-caused climate change is already having in the form of devastating extreme weather events that threaten our economy and, increasingly, our lives,” Mann said.

Sarkozy, 69, reacted by saying he was not prepared to accept "the profound injustice" and would now turn to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge the verdict.

As artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales explains, "The soil is more important than the seeds," – a profound insight into cultural change.

That poses profound questions about how much influence and from where is judged to be too much influence from too far away.