 Despite her modest upbringing, her constant success in school allowed her to get into the prestigious nearby Lycée de Saint Germain-en-Laye where she excelled in all subjects and in particular in all literature-related studies.After her Baccalauréat, she was admitted at the Sorbonne Université on full scholarship where she studied philosophy.French philosopher Raymond Aron quickly noticed the excellence of Françoise an after a few years into the program at the Sorbonne supported her application to the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship that sent her to Brandeis University where she studied History of Ideas, under the guidance of the controversial German-born philosopher Herbert Marcuse.