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...
Julliard, 354 pages. Written between 1942 and 1943, this novel is a succession of detailed images and earthy dialogues. The misery of the times that Françoise navigates as best she can finds an echo in the descriptions that she makes of popular life under Louis XIV. A...
Paris, Julliard, collection Sequana, (190 pages ?) Texts and poems by : Robert Antelme, Gabriel Audisio, Jean Baudry, Pierre Béarn, André Berry, Claude Boncompain, Louise Bresson, Jeanne de Castro, Jean-Louis Curtis, Max Dietlin, Maurice Druon, Raymond Dumay,...
Editions Lutetia, coll. Itinéraire n°1. Handwritten preface by Joë Bousquet. The series Itinéraires under the direction of Jacques Aubenque, who wrote the afterword to this collection. Eighteen poems by Françoise, aged 22, divided into four themes (Love, Faith, Dream,...
This novel, Françoise's very first, published in an abridged version, is probably lost forever. This is the story behind it. 1932, Denoël et Stelle publishers launch a literary competition for under-13s. A minimum of 200 lines was required to get to the starting line....