1990 : Le Scandale d’une disparition – Vie et œuvre du pasteur Doucé

by | Updated on 13/09/2024 | Published on 05/08/1990 | 1980-1995 Je ne suis pas née pour mourir, Bibliographies, Philosophical essays

Paris, Libre Arbitre, 116 pages.

Preface by Gilles Perrault.

A Protestant Baptist, Pastor Doucé founded the Center of Christ Liberator (CCL) in Paris in 1976, a space for welcoming and speaking out for believers in sexual and gender minorities. After the mysterious disappearance of the pastor in July 1990, Françoise participated with Gilles Perrault in the creation of a Committee to demand the truth about this affair. The pastor will be found murdered a few months later. (Alain)

1988 : Les Grandes Aventurières

by | Updated on 13/09/2024 | Published on 05/08/1988 | 1980-1995 Je ne suis pas née pour mourir, Bibliographies, Fictional biographies

Paris, Vernal/Philippe Lebaud, 234 pages.

For a long time, the term “adventuress” was reserved for what were known as demi-mondaines, i.e. those who, considering marriage to be a wholesale business, chose the retail trade to escape a destiny of submission and reproduction and conquer control of their own destiny.

This is not the type of adventuress we’re talking about here. Françoise gives us a dozen portraits of women who, fighting and battling both on land and at sea, forged a name for themselves and a political or military destiny. Others still, a spiritual destiny. Some of these women were the subject of separate books in Françoise’s oeuvre, such as Isabelle Eberhardt (La Couronne de sable) and Antoinette Lix (L’Amazone sombre).

1986 : Une femme nommée Castor – Mon amie Simone de Beauvoir

by | Updated on 13/09/2024 | Published on 05/08/1986 | 1980-1995 Je ne suis pas née pour mourir, Bibliographies, Literature essays

Paris, Encre, 366 pages.

Shocked by the disappearance of Simone de Beauvoir in 1986, in this book Françoise insisted on describing for us the one whose The Second Sex had marked her so much. The friendship that united them, Beauvoir’s literary work and his intimate relationship with Sartre, as well as the few theoretical disagreements that the two authors may have had are delicately approached. (Alain)

From L’Indicateur du réseau , part still unpublished:

It was during the turbulent period of the various “peace in Algeria” movements (…) that I entered, for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s place. I have known and been with since 1947 the author of Second Sex , but I lost sight of her long enough; she will recount our reunion in La Force de l’âge.