A hoisting song. This type of work song served very specific purposes: coordinating collective efforts during maneuvers—such as raising an anchor (hauling it in with the windlass) or hoisting or furling a sail. They also boosted the morale of the crew, who performed a difficult and dangerous job, and served as a collective memory. A good singer, like a good cook, made it easier to recruit the best sailors in places where enlistment wasn’t (too) forced…
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Le 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…
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Le Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 285 pages. Reissue titled Moi, Kristine, reine de Suède, 1979 The Memoirs of Hadrian , Marguerite Yourcenar’s monumental work published 7 years earlier, can only come to mind when reading Françoise’s novel. And it is not the transparent clues that she left that will invalidate this observation. One could think of…
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Le 1972. In a fiery harangue signed by the Revolutionary Homosexual International, Brussels, Françoise declares war on the congress of psychiatrists on “sexual deviations” which is to be held shortly in San Remo. By this vigorous Notice to flikiatrists and heterocops, it warns: “In San Remo, you will find us standing! » Françoise d’Eaubonne
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Le Paris, Encre, 235 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
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Le Julliard, 272 pages. Ivelle is the story of a young girl of today. An ardent, restless soul, thirsting for justice… She believes she has discovered a kind of superman in Yvon, who sees himself as the founder of a new philosophy… She follows him to Paris, to the circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés… She soon finds herself…