 During her finishing time at the Sorbonne, she worked for the American pharmaceutical company Vicks,

It was natural from her upbringing and from her training that Françoise Blime was heading for a career in public education.After all, the only steady element of her early life was school excellence and her later training pointed at revolutionary ambitions to reform a French educational system that had been slow in evolution since the late 19th century.She started by teaching philosophy at the Lycee of Noyon, nearby Paris, while joining Fernand Oury’s movement of and being involved in various research movements to reform education at this time when France itself was changing following the 1968 upheavals.