Historical novels

Paris, Albin Michel, 168 pages. The real title of this novel is “L’Évangile selon Véronique”, not “L’Évangile de Véronique” as erroneously printed on the cover. Note: Awaiting annotation.

Paris, Encre, 233 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.

Paris, Encre, 235 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.

Paris, Denoël/Gonthier, 286 pages This 1982 novel tells the story of an Amazon, Thécla, who, after drinking a certain potion, goes through time and encounters great moments in history. For the first time, the myth of immortality is embodied by a woman. This prodigious adventure novel leads us to meet Alexander the Great, to the…

Paris, le Livre contemporain. Of Françoise, Mac Orlan said : “Her style is so colorful that you have to read her books with sunglasses”. What would he have said of Les Bergères de l’Apocalypse prefigured by this book? Because it is indeed about a fight of women, arms in hand: a troop of poor immigrant…

Paris, Le livre contemporain – Amiot-Dumond, coll. Visages de l’aventure, 202 pages. The Ferme Générale (1680 – 1794) was a body of financiers and shareholders who, having bought the office from the King, collected the various taxes in force, with the right to keep half of them. Needless to say, the Farmers were overzealous, and…

René Julliard, coll. Sequana, 559 pages. While this book is dedicated to the soul of her father, it is her Spanish roots that Françoise evokes through the story of this woman, dispossessed because she was a rebel, who, at the head of her Cuadrilla, was killed by the French in front of Saragossa in 1816…

Julliard, coll. Sequana, 526 pages. Awarded the Readers’ Prize in 1947, this roman-fleuve announces themes and forms dear to Françoise that will be found throughout her novels. The sea, its buccaneers and its shipwrecks (at her request, Françoise’s ashes will be scattered by a sailboat off the coast of Morbihan), transforms the historical novel into…