Françoise Giroud
| Françoise Giroud | |
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Françoise Giroud in 1998
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| French Minister of Culture | |
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In office 24 August 1976 – 30 March 1977 |
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| President | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| Prime Minister | Raymond Barre |
| Preceded by | Michel Guy |
| Succeeded by | Michel d'Ornano |
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| Born |
21 September 1916 Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Died | 19 January 2003 (aged 86) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party | UDF |
| Profession | Journalist |
Françoise Giroud, born 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.
Giroud was born to immigrant Sephardic Turkish Jewish parents; her father was Salih Gourdji, Director of the Agence Télégraphique Ottomane in Geneva. She did not graduate from university. She married and had two children, a son (who predeceased her) and a daughter.
Giroud's work in cinema began with director Marc Allégret as a script-girl on his 1932 version of Marcel Pagnol's Fanny. In 1936 she worked with Jean Renoir on the set of La Grande Illusion. She later wrote screenplays, eventually completed 30 full-length books (both fiction and non-fiction), and wrote newspaper columns. 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 L'Express. 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. She died at the American Hospital of Paris while being treated for a head wound incurred in a fall.
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 Ministre de la Culture. She remained in that position until March 1977, for a total service of 32 months, serving in the cabinets of Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre. She was a member of the Radical Party, and on the election documents she listed her profession as "journaliste".
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