Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 391 pages.
This book can be seen as the sequel to Je voulais être une femme, published the previous year. In any case, the literary process employed here is similar.
In this opus, our heroine immerses herself in the resistance to the Algerian war, and the epic is picaresque: Mamerloy, one of the main characters, would have been worthy of a place at the table of the villa Les pamplemousses in Toulouse, where Françoise spent a colorful youth with the most whimsical characters.
Mamerloy, she would later meet again on her path: it was Roland Perrot, who founded Longo Maï, today a fine cooperative collective that had sectarian beginnings, with him in the role of guru. Françoise fought against these excesses, and the case went national.