Pre-internet, you could likely move on from a career in pornography with only the occasional wondering glance your way. But now one Quebecois teacher, 73-year-old Jacqueline Laurent Auger, has had her past catch up with her after pupils went online and discovered softcore porn films she appeared in around 45 years previously.

She has now been dismissed from her position teaching drama workshops at the elite Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montreal. “As educators, we had to ask what message is transmitted to all our students, boys and girls, from the first year of high school to the fifth, by the fact that the teacher of their drama workshops could now be seen on the Internet in the most suggestive of scenes,” the school wrote in an online statement, adding that they wanted to preserve “a calm setting free of allusions or discomfort that is unfavourable to our educational mission.”

Laurent Auger has called the move “completely absurd. I’m 73 years old. When I made those films I must have been 28 or 29. It was to make a living so that after[wards] I could work with great teachers and actors, in Paris and in Quebec. Come on.”

The films in question include Diary of a Nymphomaniac, Swedish Sex Games, and another that rather melodramatically translates as Hold Me Against You, I Need Caresses. Another Swedish film is described on Imdb as having “a realistic and nostalgic look at life on a working farm”.

Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is perhaps understandably wary of controversy: it has a series of blue-chip alumni, including both former PM Pierre Trudeau and his politician son Justin, two former Quebec Premiers, as well as a host of newspaper editors, TV personalities and musicians.