Il est né le mouv’ment du FHAR…
Inspiring! Parents will generally avoid singing this Christmas carol in front of the nativity scene while their little ones are present.
Inspiring! Parents will generally avoid singing this Christmas carol in front of the nativity scene while their little ones are present.
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…
Paris, Editions de Magrie, 186 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
Paris, Éditions du Sud, Albin Michel, 335 pages “Just as Jacobin and Napoleonic expansion had tended to liberate peoples before giving them a new discipline, the School of Five broke the chains with which Italian and Classical tyranny had burdened the realm of music; in this sense Balakirev and his satellites, Borodin, Moussorgsky, César Cui,…
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…
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…
In the early 1990s, when the rejection of the other, racism, hatred, had more and more right of citizenship in the media and in the public debate, Françoise published in the May 1992 issue of L’ Imbécile de Paris (“journal of humor and opinions forbidden to journalists”) a short article explaining why she had always…