Françoise Giroud
 Françoise Giroud      ( politician, writer) | |
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| Born | 21 September 1916 Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Died | 19 January 2003 (Age 86) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | • Lycée Molière • Collège de Groslay |
| Children | Caroline Eliacheff |
| Member of | Saint-Simon Foundation |
| Party | Radical Party (France) |
Françoise Giroud (born Lea France Gourdji), was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician. She attended the 1972 Bilderberg meeting.
Background
Giroud was born to immigrant Sephardi Turkish Jewish parents; her father was Salih Gourdji Al Baghdadi, Director of the Agence Télégraphique Ottomane in Geneva.[1] She was educated at the Lycée Molière and the Collège de Groslay. She did not graduate from university.[2] She married and had two children, a son (who died before her) and a daughter.[1]
Career
Giroud wrote screenplays, eventually completed 30 full-length books (both fiction and non-fiction), and wrote newspaper columns.[3] She was the editor of Elle magazine from 1946 (shortly after it was founded) until 1953, when she and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber founded the French newsmagazine LÉxpress. She edited L'Express until 1971, then was its director until 1974, when she was asked to participate in the French national government.
From 1984 to 1988 Giroud was president of Action Internationale contre la Faim. From 1989 to 1991 she was president of a commission to improve cinema-ticket sales. She was a literary critic on Le Journal du Dimanche, and she contributed a weekly column to Le Nouvel Observateur from 1983 until her death.[2]
Political career
In 1974, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing nominated Giroud to the position of Secrétaire d'État à la Condition féminine, which she held from 16 July 1974 until 27 August 1976, when she was appointed to the position of Minister of Culture. She remained in that position until March 1977, for a total time 32 months, in the cabinets of Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre. She was a member of the Radical Party.[4]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1972 | 21 April 1972 | 23 April 1972 | Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke | The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission. |
References
- ↑ Jump up to: a b Obituary in the London Independent (published 21 January 2003)
- ↑ Jump up to: a b Obituary, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, published 20 January 2003
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121113034720/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/914334/Francoise-Giroud
- ↑ Christine Bard, Les premières femmes au Gouvernement (France, 1936-1981), Histoire@Politique, n°1, May–June 2007
