1990 : Les Scandaleuses
Paris, Vernal/Philippe Lebaud, 234 pages.
Collection Mémoires d’autres. Note: Awaiting annotation.
Paris, Vernal/Philippe Lebaud, 234 pages.
Collection Mémoires d’autres. Note: Awaiting annotation.
Françoise is 80 years old. Interviewed in a café in Saint-Denis (Paris) about *Le Sexocide des sorcières*, she discusses the Abrahamic religions and, more broadly, misogyny, patriarchy, and the gynophobia of the *Mannerbund*. She paints a brief portrait of herself, talks about her work as a writer, and shares a few childhood memories.
This novel, Françoise’s very first, published in an abridged version, is probably lost forever. This is the story behind it. 1932, Denoël et Stelle publishers launch a literary competition for under-13s. A minimum of 200 lines was required to get to the starting line. Françoise was 12 years old, and entered a novel that ran…
Note: Awaiting annotation.
Toulouse, Julia Printing House, January 20, 1953, 28 pages, 120 copies An eighteen-page fantasy tale based on a screenplay by Jean Lakanal, with the remaining ten pages devoted to titles, flyleaves, quotations, etc. The plot is of only moderate interest, vacillating between various influences (Poe, Nerval, etc.) to superficially address a few metaphysical questions. Françoise,…
Grupo Planeta, Circulo de Lectores. Spanish translation by Fernando Gutierrez of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.
In the same vein as *Soir de bataille*, this short poem tells the story of a young boy who is about to be shot—probably for lacking the zeal to slaughter the enemy, or for leaving the trench only to be mowed down by machine-gun fire…