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Le Hachette, coll. Bibliothèque verte n°185, 187 pages. Alongside Don Quixote and Cyrano de Bergerac, the honoured bandit Mandrin Belle-Humeur has his place in Françoise’s pantheon. She also dedicated a book to him in 1957. Our French Robin Hood shares the limelight here with an 11-year-old girl who displays an audacity, courage and commitment “not expected…
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Le Paris, Seghers, 349 pages. ” 1896 ; un dur hiver noircit les vitres de Paris ; la neige a couvert les trottoirs d’un drap épais, puis a fondu ; on attend à nouveau qu’elle tombe. Chaque bec de gaz crache sa flamme jaune au cœur d’une plume de paon, irisation des gouttelettes de la brume….
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Le Paris, Arthème Fayard, 26 pages. Pages 23 to 46 in a collective work. Short story from SF: time travel, a heroine, and a fun imaginative game about the influence of glaciations on the development of Homo . If the text is of no great consequence, Françoise’s touch is there. And for her, this may have…
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Le Paris, Albin Michel, 377 pages. In this edgy novel, the illusions of love intertwine with the horrors of the century that left their mark on Françoise: the concentration camps, the Rosenbergs (she’ll give me Julius as a middle name in their memory), the political struggles in the Paris of those years. It’s also the story…
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Le Paris, Albin Michel, 304 pages. [As paradoxical as it may seem, I believe that Rimbaud’s and Verlaine’s connection has so far been very poorly studied in terms of its nature and deeper meaning. Until 1930, the question that agitated exegetes was that of homosexuality or Platonism; when the publication of the Dullaert dossier]…[vindicated Marcel Coulon]…[all…
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Le Bruxelles, Éditions Brepols (Bruxelles), 138 pages. This children’s book would have had its place in the Bibliothèque Verte. The story takes place in the Ile de France, which will become Mauritius. We find there the famous corsair, a young gabier, a young philosopher, etc., and a certain Mr. Piston, incarnation of one of Françoise’s ancestors….
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Le Paris, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, coll. Nouvelle bibliothèque de Suzette, 123 pages. This little novel for young people is the fruit of a collaboration with two literary and scientific celebrities of the time: the writer Jean-Charles (La Foire aux cancres, 12 million copies sold) and the scientist Jacques Bergier, an SF author in his spare time. The…
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Le Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 285 pages. Reissue titled Moi, Kristine, reine de Suède, 1979 The Memoirs of Hadrian , Marguerite Yourcenar’s monumental work published 7 years earlier, can only come to mind when reading Françoise’s novel. And it is not the transparent clues that she left that will invalidate this observation. One could think of…
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Le Éditions Seghers, Paris, 220 pages. In 1946, published by Éditions du Scorpion, a book by Vernon Sullivan bearing this title. Deemed scandalous, it was then the subject of a lawsuit brought by a Cartel for social and moral action, which revealed that its real author was Boris Vian. He will be sentenced to 15 days…