Paris, Le Seuil, pocket, preface Pauline Harmange, septembre 2023

This 1982 novel tells the story of an Amazon, Thécla, who, after drinking a certain potion, goes through time and encounters great moments in history. For the first time, the myth of immortality is embodied by a woman. This prodigious adventure novel leads us to meet Alexander the Great, to the discovery of America by the Vikings, to the formidable machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci, to the war in Vendée,… up to Nazism and then to May-68.

Paris, Des Femmes–Antoinette Fouque, 250 pages.

Released on November 10, this third volume closes (almost) the saga of the Without our knowing the reasons, this text, written in the early 1980s, had never been published. However, as Élise Thiébaut writes in her preface, “reading it I had the impression that it was the key to the whole saga, the entry point that allowed us to finally understand it in its entirety” .

It is about the global war of the sexes from the point of view of the enemy camp, through the neurotic vision of the founder of Gynophobia (a whole program…). We can draw a parallel with the work of Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, published in 1985.

Thanks to the IMEC who allowed us to exhume this manuscript, to Élise Thiébaut, as well as to Alain for his valuable proofreading work.. (Vincent)

Paris, Des Femmes–Antoinette Fouque, 650 pages .

1978.
Contrairement à beaucoup de lectrices et lecteurs bien plus lucides que moi, ce roman, à sa sortie, me passe au-dessus de la tête ; je m’attendais à quelque chose d’aussi charmant que Le Satellite de l’Amande et suis décontenancé. Avec ma lenteur d’esprit habituelle (pour reprendre une expression que Françoise avait employée avec fausse modestie envers elle-même), il m’aura fallu attendre 2022 et cette réédition par Des Femmes-Antoinette Fouque pour découvrir ce que je considère dorénavant être un véritable chef d’œuvre. I have one small regret left: that of not having been able to tell Françoise of my overflowing enthusiasm. (Alain)

To illustrate this hallucinatory saga, we needed nothing less than Mathilde’s great and beautiful voice in one of her most poignant songs, which Françoise would have been a fan of (Vincent).

Paris, Des Femmes–Antoinette Fouque, 176 pages .

1975. I am 21 years old, I have known Françoise for several months and we have already become inseparable. Des Femmes publish Le Satellite de l’Amande , a science fiction novel set in a world of women only. I’m excited. The exploration of the small exoplanet, the philosophical questions of the narrator, the light pen of the author, everything charms my tumultuous youth. 47 years later, Des Femmes editions are republishing this book, and it is therefore with particular pleasure that I set off again to discover this d’Eaubonnesque universe. (Alain)