Despite her brilliance, Christiane Gonod remained a behind-the-scenes figure. Several factors contributed to her relative obscurity:

As the news of Gonod's conviction broke, many took to social media to express their shock and disgust. The hashtag #JusticePourFrancoisEtLesEnfants (Justice for François and the children) trended on Twitter, with people calling for Gonod to receive the harshest possible sentence.

For those interested in the technical history of cartography, Gonod’s workflow is a marvel of analog data processing: