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Françoise Giroud
French writer and politician (1916–2003).
Born September 21st, 1916 in Lausanne.
Died January 19th, 2003 at 86 years old in Paris (myocardial infarction).
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel