 Troubles at home and the repeated bombing of Lyon suburbs made it that Francoise was interned in a catholic institutions with her brother and sister, an experience that made her a staunch anti-clerical person all of her life.Her parents separated during the war and she moved to Paris with her mother, her brother and her sister.As her mother was trying to make ends meet in post-war Paris, Françoise was sent to live with her godfather's family in Le Vesinet, a posh Western suburb of Paris.