Marie, Myriam, Meriem
A work by Françoise—very well done in terms of both the text and the performance—that brings to mind her novel *I Wasn’t Born to Die*. It would still deserve a different musical accompaniment, though 🙂
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1947: Comme un vol de gerfauts
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…
1933 : Mireille, fille des montagnes
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…
1972: Le Féminisme, histoire et actualité
Paris, Alain Moreau, 400 pages. This book is a very dense essay on the history of feminism, from Antiquity to the beginnings of the American and French Women’s Liberation Movements. Françoise d’Eaubonne analyzes these “primordial historical facts” which are “phallocratism, sexism, then feminism”. Based on a very wide variety of references (psychoanalytical, anthropological, historical, literary,…
1988 : La Femme russe
Paris, Encre, 177 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1973 : Carlo Magno. I Vichinghi: Erik il Rosso e i suoi figli. Guglielmo il Conquistatore
Genève, Éditions Ferni Italian edition. Chapter with unknown title in MICHAL, Bernard (éd.), Françoise D’EAUBONNE, Jean DELAMOTTE et Pierre GUILLEMOT. Les Grands Conquérants ; Alexandre le Grand, Justinien de Byzance, Gengis Khan.
2001 : Mémoires irréductibles – De l’entre-deux guerres à l’an 2000
Paris, Dagorno, 1135 pages. A whole century (or almost)! This voluminous collection brings together the various volumes of Françoise d’Eaubonne’s memoirs already published at different times in her life: Chienne de jeunesse (covering the period from 1930 to 1945), Les Monstres de l’été (from 1945 to 1965), L’Indicateur du réseau (which covers different periods up…
