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Françoise Giroud
Françoise Giroud, born Lea France Gourdji (21 September 1916 in Lausanne, Switzerland and not in Geneva as often written – 19 January 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician.
Biography.
Giroud was born to immigrant Sephardic Turkish Jewish parents; her father was Salih Gourdji, Director of the Agence Télégraphique Ottomane in Geneva.
She was educated at the Lycee Moliere and the College de Groslay. She did not graduate from university. She married and
Bibliography.
- Françoise Giroud, "Françoise Giroud vous présente le Tout-Paris", Gallimard, 1952