Texts

Novelist born in 1907 and died in 1972, Violette Leduc had a strong impact on Françoise d’Eaubonne. The two writers were also friends. For a Violette Leduc symposium organized at the Charles-de-Gaulle University in Lille, on March 15 and 16, 1996, Françoise wrote this text about the difficult reception by the French public of the…

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…

In this short fiery text written at the age of 58, Françoise evokes her “female body open to the entire world on the futures of history of which her death is a part”. Her body, which “has experienced everything while defying the enemy and stood up singing”. Her “only friend with writing[qui]have never failed me,…

  In this text published in 1977 in Les Cahiers du Grif, Françoise claims to have been an “indifferent mother” instead of having been a “castrator in the kitchen, laundry, mending…”. However, she experienced what she calls “the maternal instinct”, “at the most animal level possible”. But she denounces what male society has made of…

During the heyday of La Gueule Ouverte (an environmental and political newspaper founded in 1972), the weekly magazine’s columns featured debates on various topics, such as non-violence and questions about love and sexuality. Françoise often took part in these controversies. In the December 29, 1976 issue, she responded to Isabelle Cabut, then editor-in-chief, by attacking…

1972. 1972. The MLF has existed for three years; the FHAR is in full decline. Dissensions and controversies: Daniel Guérin leaves him, Françoise d’Eaubonne too. The author and activist will temporarily join the newspaper Le Fléau social, but will leave it when it moves away from political life. In n° 2 of this journal, published…