Paris, Editions Editions Grasset, septembre 2025

David Dufresne, still at the helm of his Brigade Au Poste, found the time to devote to his grandmother by writing this book.

You may have read by the same author Tarnac, magasin général, Prix des Assises 2012. In this book, intimate reflection is combined with rigorous investigation, a new way of documenting that has been hailed by the profession. Thirteen years on, David takes up the same approach and gives us a Françoise whose feats of arms were not limited to her action against the Alsace nuclear power plant. It’s a discovery that, contrary to her usual style, Françoise was able to keep a low profile.

At the same time, David gives his views on this impossible grandmother to complicated relationships with her daughter’s family (her mother), but in what ideal world are family relationships simple in a patriarchal society? In this back-and-forth between the personal and public action, the author follows a fundamental affirmation made by our sisters and mothers in the 70s: the personal is political. In this, among other ways, he is Françoise’s grandson.

Paris, Editions Grevis, 2025

This is the first edited volume of texts produced during the international conference on Françoise which took place in Caen in 2022.

Pauline Launay, from the Association Anamnèse, which has been working for over twenty years to preserve the memory of the humanities and social sciences, has done a remarkable job of bringing the book to life, and accompanies it with a preface that poses a number of interesting questions, adding to what has already been written about Françoise.

This first volume focuses on questions of alliance between struggles, the legitimacy of recourse to violence and its limits, and the need to find ways of continuing to live, drawing on Françoise’s life and work.