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Le McGraw-Hill Book Company. English translation by Naomi Walford of Comme un vol de gerfauts. Awarded the Prix des Lecteurs in 1947, this long novel heralds the themes and forms dear to Françoise’s heart, which were to recur throughout her novels. The sea, its buccaneering and shipwrecks (at her request, Françoise’s ashes will be scattered by…
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Le Original title Indomptable Murcie, translation by Franz Geiger, Franz Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich, 1950, 374 pages German translation of Indomptable Murcie. Although this book is dedicated to the soul of her father, it is her Spanish roots that Françoise evokes through the story of this woman dispossessed because she was a rebel, who, at the head…
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Le René Julliard, coll. Sequana, 559 pages. While this book is dedicated to the soul of her father, it is her Spanish roots that Françoise evokes through the story of this woman, dispossessed because she was a rebel, who, at the head of her Cuadrilla, was killed by the French in front of Saragossa in 1816…
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Le Julliard, coll. Sequana, 526 pages. Awarded the Readers’ Prize in 1947, this roman-fleuve announces themes and forms dear to Françoise that will be found throughout her novels. The sea, its buccaneers and its shipwrecks (at her request, Françoise’s ashes will be scattered by a sailboat off the coast of Morbihan), transforms the historical novel into…
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Le Julliard, 354 pages. Written between 1942 and 1943, this novel is a succession of detailed images and earthy dialogues. The misery of the times that Françoise navigates as best she can finds an echo in the descriptions that she makes of popular life under Louis XIV. A whole world of craftsmen, shopkeepers and rank and…
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Le Paris, Julliard, collection Sequana, (190 pages ?) Texts and poems by : Robert Antelme, Gabriel Audisio, Jean Baudry, Pierre Béarn, André Berry, Claude Boncompain, Louise Bresson, Jeanne de Castro, Jean-Louis Curtis, Max Dietlin, Maurice Druon, Raymond Dumay, Françoise d’Eaubonne, Paul Gadenne, Kléber Haedens, Simone Jouglas, René Laporte, Jean Larcena, Henri Laville, René Lefèvre, Fernand Lequenne,…
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Le Editions Lutetia, coll. Itinéraire n°1. Handwritten preface by Joë Bousquet. The series Itinéraires under the direction of Jacques Aubenque, who wrote the afterword to this collection. Eighteen poems by Françoise, aged 22, divided into four themes (Love, Faith, Dream, Revolt), each illustrated with a drawing by the author. (Vincent)
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Le This novel, Françoise’s very first, published in an abridged version, is probably lost forever. This is the story behind it. 1932, Denoël et Stelle publishers launch a literary competition for under-13s. A minimum of 200 lines was required to get to the starting line. Françoise was 12 years old, and entered a novel that ran…