4.1 Legacy

  • David Dufresne

    Is there any need to introduce David, founder of Au Poste, where Françoise is regularly summoned? Nunable to attend in person, she is represented by young friends who introduce her to the channel’s 100,000 listeners. David has just published Remember Fessenheim in September 2025 about his “impossible grandmother,” a book that is causing quite a…

  • Fabienne Dumont

    An academic, author of numerous books, exhibition curator, and art critic, Fabienne is a specialist in feminist, gender, queer, and masculinity issues in France and abroad. As a herstorian, she has devoted the last few decades to raising awareness of forgotten female creators, tirelessly questioning why there are so few women in art history. Preface…

  • Manon Soavi

    Manon Soavi, Aikido teacher and author, is one of the most original contemporary voices, noted for her first book, Le maître anarchiste, Itsuo Tsuda, where she links the Tao and anarchy. Her philosophy, drawn essentially from her practice, made her come across Françoise, whom she now helps to make known: if Françoise is on Facebook…

  • Diana Vivarelli

    Diana is a playwright (over thirty published plays), actress, director and stage director. She won the Prix Beaumarchais-SACD for Explosion, une bombe nous attendait à la gare. She has just published (March 24) Pour ton bien, which tells the story of her close relationship with Françoise. She is helping to spread the word in a…

  • Ruth Hottell

    Ruth taught French at the University of Toledo (Ohio). Carolyn Merchant, to whom she is close, encouraged her for a long time to translate Françoise, which she had time to do after leaving university. Translation of Feminism or Death in English – Translations for the website.

  • Taous Merakchi

    Taous is a journalist, web editor (Passions menstrues; Mortel podcast) and author, notably of Witch Please and more recently of Vénère. She prefaced a book by Françoise, making a nice bridge between two women born 70 years apart. Preface to the reissue of Le Sexocide des sorcières.

  • Magali Payen

    Magali, founder of On est prêt and co-founder of Newtopia, inherited the capacity for action from the one she was close to in her childhood. We owe her the first reissue of Françoise after her departure, and probably other things to come. On the initiative of the reissue of Une femme nommée Castor, mon amie…