1959: Les Tricheurs
Paris, Éditions Seghers, 255 pages.
Novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charier and Laurent Terzieff. The book was reissued by L’Inter in 1970.
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Julliard, 354 pages. Written between 1942 and 1943, this novel is a succession of detailed images and earthy dialogues. The misery of the times that Françoise navigates as best she can finds an echo in the descriptions that she makes of popular life under Louis XIV. A whole world of craftsmen, shopkeepers and rank and…
1972 : Détruire le pouvoir !
In 1972, the French television program Aujourd’hui Madame featured Françoise d’Eaubonne. Faced with an opponent who doesn’t understand why the feminist activist doesn’t want women to take power in place of men, Françoise replies succinctly: – All power is bad in anyone’s hands.– Why take it, then?– To destroy it!
Le Fiacre
A song from Françoise’s childhood. In the 1920s and 1930s, cars were far less common than horse-drawn carriages. But they would never become as widespread as those.
1978 : Les Bergères de l’Apocalypse
Jean-Claude Simoën, 412 pages. See the commentary on the new edition of the book.
1970 : Les Écrivains en cage
Paris, André Balland, 230 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1985: Louise Michel la Canaque
Paris, Encre, 238 pages. 1873. Louise Michel, sentenced to deportation, arrives in New Caledonia, where she will stay for seven years. In this island which was not yet conquered by the military, her fortitude allowed her to find great joy in the luxuriant nature and especially among the Kanak people, she being the only one…
