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.

Paris, PUF, 2021

This book, which you might think was written by Françoise, is in fact a compilation of texts by Françoise, presented by Caroline Lejeune.

I cannot tell you more because I never received a copy despite having requested one.

Paris, Editions Charleston, 2021, réédition en poche 2024

THE book that did so much to bring Françoise back, and that her great posthumous friend Elise Thiébaud supports with tireless steadfastness over the years.

Written during the pandemic, Elise was unable to access her archives at IMEC. However, she ordered all Françoise’s available books to read, building up a library of 70 to 80 titles.

The result is a romanticized portrait of Françoise that I feel is extremely accurate, as she has been captured in the essence of her being. As Elise likes to point out, they are connected, and already by their common day of birth, March 12.

Paris, Le Passager Clandestin, 2019

In this 100-page book, prefaced by Serge Latouche, Caroline Goldblum offers an excellent 50-page introduction to Françoise’s life and ecofeminist work, with selected texts.

Caroline’s text contains a few biographical notes, a presentation of Françoise’s ecofeminism and its reception in France and around the world. In 2025, this 2018 writing is already a historical testimony to the extent to which Françoise’s thought, now translated into nine languages, has spread.

In the Les précurseurs de la décroissance Les précurseurs de la décroissan collection, an excellent way to get a first impression of an autaire.