Francoise Giroud
An Honorable Woman (Marie Curie)
(nineteen eighty one)
380 pages
Fayard

This book is my reading of the life of Marie Curie, as she appeared to me since I was led in her footsteps and she never left me, this gray-eyed sorceress.
A woman of pride, passion and hard work, who was an actress of her time because she had the ambition of her means and the means of her ambition, finally an actress of ours, since, between Marie Curie-Sklodowska and force atomic, the filiation is direct. Besides, she died of it.