Francoise Giroud

Francoise Giroud , born Lea France Gourdji the September 21st 1916 with Lausanne in Suisse, and dead the January 19th 2003 at the American Hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine is a journalist, writer and French political woman. She takes the name of Giroud per decree of July 12th, 1964.

Vice-president of the Left radical socialist and the UDF, it was Minister for the Culture, and was a major personality of the political press in France.

Biography

Girl of Salih Gourdji, director of the Othoman telegraphic Agency taken refuge political, which dies in 1919, and of Elda Farragi, Jewish sépharate, it leaves the school at sixteen years. With a diploma of dactilo, it begins a career with the cinema in Paris, like scripte-girl of Marc Allégret and Jean Renoir, assistant-setter in scene as from 1937, then scenario writer.

Woman of action, it is liaison officer in the Résistance during the Second world war. She will be stopped by the Gestapo and will be imprisoned with Fresnes. Its convictions, far from reducing itself, all the more continue some, that it is against the Guerre of Algeria, which is worth the plastic bomb attack of its apartment to him, for the causes women or for the Journalisme.

With leaving the War, it is engaged by Helene Lazareff as director of drafting (1945-1953) for the creation of IT , magazine modern and feminist. She writes at the time also in France Dimanche, the Intransigent and France-Evening . She founds in 1953 with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, her lover, the Express train , which she directs until 1974 as a director of the drafting, then of the publication, and as president of the Express train-Union group, between 1970 and 1974.

She publishes simultaneously with her journalistic career several tests, of which the New wave, portrait of the youth in 1958, which imposes this term to qualify the style of the new scenario writers resulting from the Cahiers of the cinema.

In spite of a call to vote François Mitterrand in 1974, it militates within the Radical party for the social modernization promised by Valery Giscard d'Estaing and becomes Secretary of State near the Prime Minister, responsible for the Female condition, between July 1974 and August 1976, where it launches “hundred measurements” in favor of the women (installation of clean rights for the women, fights against discriminations, opening of the trades known as male, etc). As Secretary of State to the Culture until March 1977, it does not mark the ministry, ratifying the decisions taken before them like the law on the architecture of January 31st, 1977 and the creation of DRAC. Candidate with the municipal elections of 1977 at the request of Giscard d'Estaing, in XVe arrodissement of Paris, it is in the middle of a scandal orchestrated by Chiraquiens, the marshal's wife de Hautecloque, widow of the general Leclerc, publicly showing it to usurp the Médaille of Resistance. According to Christine Ockrent, a letter received by the mother of Francoise Giroud would prove that this decoration would have being allotted to Francoise and her sister, Djenane, but this one was finally given only to Djenane, died with its return of deportation, of the camp of Ravensbruck, in May 1945. This scandal involves its withdrawal of the Parisian elections, and its not-taken back within the new Barre government.

It leaves the policy in 1979 and of its frequentation of golds of the capacity, it writes the Comedy of the capacity then Good pleasure (1983), adapted to the cinema. Associated with a group of French intellectuals whose Bernard-Henri Levy, Jacques Attali, Philippe Mahrer, Marek Halter, Alfred Kastler (Nobel Prize of physics), Guy Sorman and Robert Sebbag like with doctors, journalists and writers, it founded in 1979 association Action Against the Hunger (ACF).

To its exit of the government, the Express train comes to be sold with Jerry Goldsmith, and Raymond Aron, leader-writer of the magazine, is opposed to its rehabilitation. In 1983, Jean Daniel proposes to him to be a leader-writer with the Nouvel observer, where she writes during twenty years. It also produces several television programs and publishes tests, biographies and novels with success. It is then called like member of the jury of the Prix Femina in 1992.

It was also member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence.

Francoise Giroud is the mother of the pédopsychiatre and psychoanalyst Caroline Eliacheff.

Honors

Works

Works

  • All-Paris , Gallimard
  • New portraits , Gallimard
  • the New wave, portraits of youth , Gallimard
  • If I lie , Stock" Translated ace " I give you my word" (in US) 1975?
  • a water Handle, Robert Laffont
  • the Comedy of the Capacity , Beech
  • what I believe , Grasset, 1978
  • a honourable Woman , Fayard, 1982
  • Good pleasure, Mazarine , 1983
  • Dior , Éditions of the Glance
  • My very dear love , Grasset
  • Alma Mahler, or art to be liked , Robert Laffont, 1988
  • particular Leçons , Fayard, 1990
  • Jenny Marx or the Woman of the devil , 1992
  • Journal ofParisian a , 1994
  • Speak to me about love , with Bernard-Henri Levy, 1994
  • Cœur of tiger , 1994
  • Arthur or happiness to live , 1997
  • Two and two make three , 1998
  • the Frenchwomen, of Gallic at the pill , 1999
  • It arrived yesterday. Newspaper 1999 , 2000
  • One cannot be happy all the time " , Beech, 2001
  • spots of the leopard , 2003
  • Lou, history of a free woman , 2002

Texts of song

  • the Little Red Riding Hood , created by Smoothing iron Jambel on a music of Louis Gasté, 1944
  • It had the Slavic charm , sung by Andrex on a music of Georges van Parys, 1944
It also composed of the songs for Danielle Darrieux and Tino Rossi.

Career with the cinema

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