1959 : Storbyungdom
Edition Overs. Under the title Jeunesse urbaine, Norwegian translation of Les Tricheurs by Per Aamot.
1959: Le Gabier de Surcouf
Bruxelles, Éditions Brepols (Bruxelles), 138 pages. This children’s book would have had its place in the Bibliothèque Verte. The story takes place in the Ile de France, which will become Mauritius. We find there the famous corsair, a young gabier, a young philosopher, etc., and a certain Mr. Piston, incarnation of one of Françoise’s ancestors….
1959 : Le sous-marin de l’espace
Paris, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, coll. Nouvelle bibliothèque de Suzette, 123 pages. This little novel for young people is the fruit of a collaboration with two literary and scientific celebrities of the time: the writer Jean-Charles (La Foire aux cancres, 12 million copies sold) and the scientist Jacques Bergier, an SF author in his spare time. The…
1959: Je m’appelle Kristine
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…
1959: J’irai cracher sur vos tombes
Éditions Seghers, Paris, 220 pages. In 1946, published by Éditions du Scorpion, a book by Vernon Sullivan bearing this title. Deemed scandalous, it was then the subject of a lawsuit brought by a Cartel for social and moral action, which revealed that its real author was Boris Vian. He will be sentenced to 15 days…
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.
1958: Fort des Femmes
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…
1958: Chevrette et Virginie
Hachette, coll. Bibliothèque verte n°46, 253 pages. This first novel intended for young people is adorned with a cover whose reading could be much less innocent today than at the time. And it is the story of two adventurous and shipwrecked women that is told to us. We can even venture to think that Françoise…
1957: Les Amours de Roméo et Juliette
Paris, Édition Rombaldi, coll. Le club de la Femme. Here, a novel with Cyranesque accents, which is worth it for its detailed and colorful descriptions of Verona in the 15th century. Apart from that, it’s a book to support herself financially, written without passion. Living from her pen, without financial support, position or husband, may…