"Dare Women" or the art of combining solidarity in the plural feminine

Frédérique Picard at her home in Paris. Madeleine Meteyer

She has the physical CV of an American channel presenter: blonde hair, blue eyes, white smile. Her appearance is flirtatious: skirt and red nails, black boots. Her assured voice when she introduced herself: “ My name is Frédérique because my parents wanted a boy. I was the boy. I only wanted to do boy things. While feeling " very girl ". For her father, Frédérique acts very well as a male heir; he incites him to " manage "; her parents see her " as an adventurer who would live with orangutans "; they don't talk to her about marriage, no motherhood. Petite Frédérique became passionate about sailing and won the Figaro optimist frigate at the age of 10. Among the Bihans, " right-wing liberals ", the day does not start without reading the oldest daily newspaper in France - with these people, we have taste.

So, without being one of those women who despise their gender, our subscriber has from childhood realized that a girl is not

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