1966: Les Monstres de l’été

Paris, Julliard, 464 pages.

The second part of Françoise’s “early memoirs” begins with these words:

“East Berlin, March 12, 1965 (my birthday). – My guide absolutely wants to offer to name a street in East Berlin after me. I did not deserve “this excess of honor”; if I accept it, it is because for most it will be an “indignity”. »

In this text, the author continues writing her memories of the end of the Second War in the early 1960s, after a first volume, Chienne de jeunesse, which retraced her journey from 1930 to 1945. (Alain)