Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1962, 158 pages. Françoise saw in Flaubert the first of the bourgeois writers (with time and money) to have introduced what she considers to be the cardinal value of his class in literature:: investment in time (time is money). If she doesn't...
Éditions Cino Del Duca, 258 pages. A translation of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes. 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...
Hachette, coll. Bibliothèque verte n°185, 187 pages. Alongside Don Quixote and Cyrano de Bergerac, the honoured bandit Mandrin Belle-Humeur has his place in Françoise's pantheon. She also dedicated a book to him in 1957. Our French Robin Hood shares the limelight here...
Moscou, Éditions scolaires d’État, 1963. Russian version of The Space Submarine, republished by Prosvechtchenie in 1973, 70 pages. This edition is attributed to "Françoise d'Obonne" and the title is in (approximate) French "Voyage en cosmos".
Paris, Seghers, 349 pages. " 1896 ; un dur hiver noircit les vitres de Paris ; la neige a couvert les trottoirs d'un drap épais, puis a fondu ; on attend à nouveau qu'elle tombe. Chaque bec de gaz crache sa flamme jaune au cœur d'une plume de paon, irisation des...
Ace Books, New York American translation of Les Tricheurs, Françoise's novelization of Marcel Carné's film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.
Paris, Arthème Fayard, 26 pages. Pages 23 to 46 in a collective work. Short story from SF: time travel, a heroine, and a fun imaginative game about the influence of glaciations on the development of Homo . If the text is of no great consequence, Françoise's touch is...
Paris, Albin Michel, 377 pages. In this edgy novel, the illusions of love intertwine with the horrors of the century that left their mark on Françoise: the concentration camps, the Rosenbergs (she'll give me Julius as a middle name in their memory), the political...
Paris, Albin Michel, 304 pages. [As paradoxical as it may seem, I believe that Rimbaud's and Verlaine's connection has so far been very poorly studied in terms of its nature and deeper meaning. Until 1930, the question that agitated exegetes was that of homosexuality...