 Second daughter of Maurice Dutertre (1902 - 1998) a Navy officer, and Yvonnes Delarue-Dutertre (1906-1992), a saleswoman, a swimming instructor and an artist from the Parisian branch of the Delarue family from Honfleur, Normandie.Early on recognized as talented in school, Françoise Blime grew up in Toulon, where her father was stationed as an officer in the newly formed anti-submarine naval air force units fighting the 1940 war against French Mediterranean incursions of the Italian fleet.The family then moved to Lyon for the time of the German occupation, where her father, forcibly decommissioned and a stunt anti-British naval officer is suspected to have worked as a potential collaborator with the Vichy police.