1985: Louise Michel la Canaque

by | Updated on 13/09/2024 | Published on 05/08/1985 | 1980-1995 Je ne suis pas née pour mourir, Bibliographies, Fictional biographies

Paris, Encre, 238 pages.

1873. Louise Michel, sentenced to deportation, arrives in New Caledonia, where she will stay for seven years. In this island which was not yet conquered by the military, her fortitude allowed her to find great joy in the luxuriant nature and especially among the Kanak people, she being the only one to support them in 1878 when the former communards joined forces with the jailers to exterminate them. Under the pen of Françoise, Louise finds a life worthy of the exceptional woman she was. (Vincent)

1983 : L’Amazone sombre, vie d’Antoinette Lix

by | Updated on 13/09/2024 | Published on 05/08/1983 | 1980-1995 Je ne suis pas née pour mourir, Bibliographies, Fictional biographies

Paris, Encre, 309 pages.

Daughter of an Alsatian innkeeper and former Napoleonic grenader, Antoinette Lix (1839-1909) received an unconventional education in horseback riding and weapons handling. She took part in the Polish uprising against the Russian occupiers and, on her return to France, tried in vain to join the regular army, at a time when it was out of the question for a woman to join the armed forces as a combatant. So she joined the Corps-Francs de Lamarche, where she led her men in the defense of the Vosges against the Germans during the 1870 war. In recognition of her commitment and feats of arms, she was awarded a Sword of Honor, now on display at the Armies Museum.

An extraordinary destiny worthy of Françoise’s pen and her sense of epic.

1983 : À la limite des ténèbres

by | Updated on 13/09/2024 | Published on 05/08/1983 | 1980-1995 Je ne suis pas née pour mourir, Bibliographies, Miscellaneous novels

Paris, Encre, 278 pages.

“I am an assassin. More than an assassin: a demon, a ferocious animal, a being who draws its life only from the blood of others, like vampires… I’ve killed twenty-seven people, most of them women; always in the dark, at dusk.” These are the words of the doomed hero of one of the most incredible crime stories in the annals of crime.

Françoise d’Eaubonne endeavored to paint the intimate tragedy of this schizophrenic character, the evolution between genius and madness of the dark forces of mental disorder. He will end up exhausting his own violence and become, bitterly, the spectator of his delirium.

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