Françoise Giroud (born Lea France Gourdji; 21 September 1916 â 19 January 2003) was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician. Giroud was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to immigrant Sephardi Turkish Jewish parents; her father was Salih Gourdji Al Baghdadi, Director of the Agence TĂ©lĂ©graphique Ottomane in Geneva. She was educated at the CollĂšge de Groslay and the LycĂ©e MoliĂšre in Paris. She did not graduate from university. She married and had two children, aâŠ
