Francoise Chandernagor

Francoise Chandernagor , of the Goncourt Academy, is a French writer, born the June 19th 1945. It is the girl of André Chandernagor, former deputy of Hollow and Minister for the government Pierre Mauroy.

Former student of the National school of administration, it becomes member of the Council of State in 1969.

She leaves the administration and gives up her career of Fonctionnaire in 1993 to devote itself entirely to the writing. She is member of the Académie Goncourt.

Born in a family from combined masons creusois with the descendants of a freed Indian slave (from where its name), married in first weddings with Philippe Jurgensen and in second weddings with Gerard de Senneville, mother of three children, Francoise Chandernagor always shared her life between Paris and the Massif Central.

After a diploma of the Institute of political studies of Paris and a Control of public law, it enters to twenty and one years to the National school of administration (ÉNA), from where it leaves two years later major his promotion. It is then the first woman to obtain this row.

In 1969, it integrates the Council of State where it will exert various judicial offices, in particular those of General reporter.

She occupies also several stations in external administrations, as well in the cultural sector as in economic services, and assumes on a purely voluntary basis of the responsibilities in caritative organizations, in particular the vice-presidency of the Fondation of France until 1988 and the vice-presidency of the Fondation of Aguesseau.

In 1991, it wrote the annual report of the Council of State on the legal insecurity.

Since 1981, date on which it published the Alley of the King (imaginary memories of Madam de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV), Francoise Chandernagor wrote eight novels and a play (played in Brussels in 1993-1994 and Paris in 1994-1995). Several of its novels were translated in about fifteen languages, and two of them were the subject of televisual adaptations.

In the Room , in 2002, it includes the mechanism of the imaginary memories to depict the life of an young child imprisoned by revolutionists, who is in fact the young person Louis XVII.

Francoise Chandernagor is member of the Price Jean Giono, the Price Chateaubriant, and the Académie Goncourt (since June 1995). She is Vice-Présidente of association " Freedom for Histoire".

Commander of the national order of the Merit, in April 2007 it is promoted Officer of the Legion of Honor.

Anecdote

The rumor wants that Francoise Chandernagor has, at the time of its “oral examination” of entry to ENA answered the question of the jury: “Which difference do you make between a lover and a husband? ” by this at the very least dared answer: - “It is the day and the night! ”

Works

the Alley of the King (1981)
Lessons of darkness

It Without Similar (1988)
the Archangel of Vienna (1989)
the Child with the wolves (1990)

Shade of the Sun (theatrical monolog according to the Alley of the King, 1994)
the Child of the Lights (1995)
the First wife (1998)
Maintenon (in collaboration with Georges Poisson, 2001)
the Room (2002)
Color of time (2004)
Voyageuse of night (2007), 336 pages, white Collection, Gallimard - ISBN 2-070-78122-5.

Work analyzes

"Lessons of Light: Open letter with Francoise Chandernagor" , of Michel Rheault" , with the editions Foot-note bucket (Montreal, 2006) and Mercure de France (Paris, 2007).

External bonds

http://www.stantv.com and http://www.stantv.fr Conference of F. Chandernagor to the Saint-Sigisbert College of Nancy; second valid bond until December 31st, 2006 (http://www.pepart.org/placestan/D%E9bats.htm)
Site of Francoise Chandernagor

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