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Friday, February 11

from 19h
Laure Adler

sign his book

Françoise

(Editions Grasset )

"By the power of his passions, the fire of his will, by his intelligence and imagination, Francoise Giroud had managed to enter more than one life between the two dates confined themselves hers (1916 -2003). Journalist, writer, politician, but also scriptwriter and lyricist, she was an activist in the feminist cause, the friend of all that Paris had intelligence and more informed discoverer of talent. Also needed- there a certain audacity to attack his biography - to try to catch in mass events, contradictions and mysteries, what was this figure of the twentieth century. Laure Adler, who has often worked on the fates of women (including Marguerite Duras and Hannah Arendt), was obviously well placed to approach this fascinating personality (...). The strength of his work, however, is something other than its documentary aspect, so complete it is. For more than a biography in the classic sense of the term, Françoise is an encounter. The result of a face-to-face between two women, one observing the other from the balcony of his life, his knowledge of the world and its sensitivity. Suddenly, the text that emerges from this confrontation is the opposite of a dry and detailed narrative. As shown in the simple name chosen to title the book, Françoise is the expression of a look - turns friendly, appreciative, perplexed, without illusion or even, on one occasion, completely disgusted - but also a form of complicity. "( Raphaëlle Rérolle, The World, January 20, 2011)