1978 : L’Indicateur du réseau

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 05/08/1980 | 1980-1995, I was not born to die, 2.1 Bibliographies, Autobiographies

Paris, Encre, 350 pages.

The third volume of Françoise d’Eaubonne’s memoirs, L’Indicateur du réseau traces important events in her life starting from the names of the places where they took place: with humour, she speaks of a “topographical assessment”. The story advances along the alphabetical thread of station names, and we meet her successively at different ages in her life: her childhood, her family, her loved ones, the war, her first relationships – more than failed – with men, her books, her writing, her struggles. We learn in this memoir how much writing is, for her, a weapon of resistance.

This text has so far never been published in its entirety. In the still unpublished part (submitted to IMEC), Françoise, emphasizing her “fervor for this counter-literature that is Science Fiction”, specified that science fiction, “like everything that is against, rejuvenates and refreshes the old form, and that is why I choose here the name of counter-memorials”. (Aurore and Alain)

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1980 : Histoire de la galanterie – tome IV Au temps des mignons du Roi

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 05/08/1980 | 1980-1995, I was not born to die, 2.1 Bibliographies, Historical essays

Geneva, Famot.

Most certainly collective work, and work with a financial incentive for Françoise. The title refers to the time of Henry III, where the term “mignon” definitely took on the pejorative connotation that we still know it to have. A connotation that did not exist before, this word, minion , meaning “faithful”, “servant”. Thus, the Jesuits were for a time very seriously called the “ministry of Jesus Christ”.

It was the criticisms, both from the Huguenots and from the members of the League, of the escapades and excesses of the formidable swordsmen who surrounded the young king that gave it this derogatory meaning. And insofar as these critics considered them effeminate and suspected them of homosexuality (which, at the time, could land them on the stake if one was not high enough in the hierarchy), it would be interesting to see how Françoise tackled the question of “gallantry”. (Vincent)

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1980: Feminism or Death

by | Updated on 19/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/1980 | 2.1 Bibliographies, English

Schocken Books, USA

Partial translation by Ynestra King in New French Feminisms: An Anthology of Françoise’s best-known book, Le Féminisme ou la Mort, in which she uses the neologism “ecofeminism” for the first time.

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1980 : The nature of the crisis

by | Updated on 17/06/2026 | Published on 04/05/1980 | Articles, Texts

The nature of the crisis

In 1980, issue 20 of Sorcières, les femmes vivents published 6 pages by Françoise. She summarizes her long work to flush out the root causes of our aberrations. The passage of time only strengthens her pen and, despite anthropological reminders that can sometimes be dated, she gets to the point in the last two dazzling pages.

““To attack Capital is only to attack the point of the weapon which wounds us and tears us apart; the handle of the weapon plunges into the mists of time, it is called patriarchy, it is called male civilization with a universal pattern (…) Maintaining the industrial age (…) means the end of the terrestrial world in thirty to fifty years. We cannot go beyond that age while maintaining a profit system. We cannot abolish this system of profit by preserving a society of classes, namely a need for power. We cannot abolish power by preserving the patriarchal and masculine world. C.Q.F.D. The future of the species is in our hands.”

Françoise d’Eaubonne

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