Françoise Giroud

Françoise Giroud (birth name: Lea France Gourdji; born September 21, 1916 in Geneva, † January 19, 2003 in Paris) was a French feminist journalist, writer and politician.

Life

Françoise Giroud comes from a Mizrachimfamilie, a family of Middle Eastern Jews in Ottoman service. She received her schooling at the Lycée Molière and at the Collège de Groslay and then worked as a secretary, but soon began the writing of screenplays. From her marriage to film producer Anatole Eliacheff comes from the psychoanalyst and screenwriter Caroline Eliacheff.

1953, she was next to the famous leftist intellectuals Jean -Jacques Servan-Schreiber co-founder of the news magazine L' Express and was one of its editors. In the following years, she coined the journalistic work of the magazine and was a leading representative of feminism in post-war France.

In 1974 she was President of Valéry Giscard d' Estaing as Secretary of State for the Status of Women in the Ministry of Culture appointed to the government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and belonged to this until the end of Chirac's term of office in 1976.

In addition to her ministerial office, she also began writing books such as Ce que je crois (1975) and La Comédie du pouvoir (1977 ), which have been translated into many languages. Among her best-sellers include the 1983 published novel Le bon plaisir, in 1984 by Francis Girod under the title Le Bon Plaisir - was filmed in a political love affair with Catherine Deneuve and Jean -Louis Trintignant and in 1985 was nominated for a César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Les hommes et les femmes (1993). At the International Film Festival of Cannes 1990, was a member of the jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Furthermore, they also wrote biographies of famous women such as Marie Curie, Alma Mahler -Werfel, Jenny Marx and Cosima Wagner. 1999 published her autobiography under the title Is not it wonderful to be happy? Autobiography.

Publications

• Dior: Christian Dior 1905-1957, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-88814-247-4
• Alma Mahler, or the art to be loved, original title Alma Mahler ou l'art d' être aimée, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-552-04114-1
• When we speak of Europe: a dialogue between Françoise Giroud and Günter Grass, Original title: Ecoutez -moi, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-630-61835-9
• The men and women, original title Les hommes et les femmes, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-026003-1
• Trio infernal or the life of Jenny Marx. Beltz, Weinheim 1994, ISBN 3-88679-230-7.
• The lover, original title Mon très cher amour ..., Dusseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-547-73218-2
• Instructive lessons, original title Leçons particulières, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-13193-6
• Cosima Wagner: sublime with power and with love, original title Cosima la, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-24133-0
• Marie Curie: "Humanity also needs dreamers ", Munich 1999, ISBN 3-612-26602-0
• Two and two are three, original title Deux et deux font trois, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-61285-2.

• Francoise Giroud vous présente le Tout- Paris, new edition of the book from 1952. Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2013, ISBN 978-2-0701-3986-6.
• Jenny Marx ou la femme du diable. Laffont, Paris 1992 ISBN 2-221-06808-4
• L' histoire d'une femme libre. Collection Blanche, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2013, ISBN 978-2-0701-3840-1.

Background literature

• Laure Adler: Françoise, 2011

External links and sources

• Literature by and about Françoise Giroud in the catalog that German national library
• Françoise Giroud at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Françoise Giroud in Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available )
• Élaine Audet: Françoise Giroud, une femme au influent féminisme ambigu, article dated 20 January 2003 ( sisyphe.org )
• Bibliography ( openlibrary.org )
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, p 606, ISBN 0 550 10051 2