Françoise’s audio archives
Radio Mouvance and various recordings
Interviews
1999: Around the witches sexocide
Françoise is 80 years old. Interviewed in a café in Saint-Denis (Paris) about Le Sexocide des sorcières, she talks about the religions of the Book and, more broadly, the misogyny, patriarchy and gynophobia of the mannerbund. She gives a brief portrait of herself, talks about her work as a writer and recalls some of her childhood memories.
1972: Destroying the power!
In 1972, the French television program Aujourd’hui Madame featured Françoise d’Eaubonne. Faced with an opponent who doesn’t understand why the feminist activist doesn’t want women to take power instead of men (for a male, not wanting power is totally incomprehensible), Françoise, terse, replies:
– All power is bad in anyone’s hands.
– Why take it, then?
– To destroy it!
Poems, songs, miscellaneous…
70’s: Some FHAR* songs
*Homosexual Revolutionary Action Front
The FHAR movement is born...
Edifying! Parents generally avoid singing this carol in front of the crib, in the presence of their little ones.
The FHAR song
To the tune of Brassens’ La Mauvaise Réputation.
Meetings at the Odéon
Well, my mom didn’t brag to me about that one. It has to be said that at the time of this feat of arms, I was only 12 to 15 years old, so that explains it. (Vincent)
A raid on Tours
At the time, Jean Royer was the symbol of rigid, and therefore homophobic, Catholic morality.
Poems
La Cigale et la Fourmi (J. de la Fontaine)
Classic French version followed by a 20th-century slang version.
Evening of battle
Slang from the trenches of 1914.
Les 3 Cigarettes
In the same spirit.
From Lacenaire
A poem by Lacenaire, in the early 19th century (between 1820 and 1836), before he was guillotined.
Requiem pour un pédé
Recited version of the song “A Frederico Garcia Lorca”.
Various compositions and interpretations
Marie, Myriam, Meriem
A creation by Françoise, reminiscent of her novel Je ne suis pas née pour mourir.
Les Stances
A song by Christiane Rochefort.
To Federico Garcia Lorca
Garcia Lorca was not shot, the reality is even more sordid…
La Chaisière de Saint-Sulpice
Was it Françoise’s song, or an old realist song of which we have no trace?…
Le Pendu de Saint-Germain
A song by Henri Heugel, circa late 19th century.
Les 3 Marins de Groix
Un chant de marins. As we have already pointed out, Françoise was very attached to her Brittany.
Sur le pont de Morlaix
Another sailors’ song, in the same spirit. Un chant à hisser.
Le Fiacre
A song from his childhood…