Françoise Giroud, whose real name was Leah France Gourdji (Lausanne, Switzerland, September 21, 1916 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, January 19, 2003 was a journalist, script writer, writer and Minister of the French government also was. vice president of the Radical and Radical Socialist Party and the Union for French Democracy. It adopts the surname Giroud by a decree of July 12, 1964.