Arthur

by Françoise Giroud

"Arthur est mon compagnon de toujours. Il m'a suivie aux quatre coins du monde, il a été le témoin distrait ou vigilant - c'est selon - de mes épreuves et de mes joies. Je lui dois un chapelet de chances sans lesquelles je serais peut-être aujourd'hui retraitée de la Poste, et qui ont entretenu mon bonheur de vivre. Arthur est le nom que je donne à mon ange gardien. Les souvenirs que j'évoque ici, d'une vie riche en péripéties de toutes sortes, sont une manière d'hommage que je lui rends, même si j'ai eu parfois envie de lui tirer les oreilles..." F.G.

216 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 1997

About the author

Françoise Giroud, born France Gourdji was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician.

Reviews

[Maria Carmo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting biography of a woman who not only witnessed, by also contributed largely to the French 20th Century. As script writer, as journalist, as Minister of Culture, as citizen implied in politics and the betterment of conditions (especially for women), finally as a writer and biographer, François Giroud left a legacy of books and actions worth reading about.
Curiously, in this book written at the very end of the 20th. century (she died in 2003) she already talks of so many things we see today: the rising unemployment rates, the difficulties for families and the elderly, the collapse of economy and the profound changes in society and culture...
What a socially "clairvoyant" thinker this woman was! And what a tribute to the life of the Author of portraits such as Alma Mahler, Clemenceau and others!

Definitely a good read!

Maria Carmo,

Lisbon, 4 February 2015.

[Camelia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, I must admit that the title made me expect a totally different thing, so it was somehow disappointing. Never heard of Françoise Giroud before, so I had no interest in her autobiography. But let’s just say that I took a few lessons of life out of it…

[Laurent Szklarz]

Léger livre de souvenirs d'une grande dame. Tres agréable lecture.