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Louise Faure-Favier was born in 1870. Throughout her life, she wrote countless newspapers columns, serial stories and novels, eventually engaging with a passion in aviation. Her novel "Blanche et Noir" is a testimony to her open-mindedness in the face of France's difficulty in extending the republican principles of liberty, equality and fraternity to the Black inhabitants of its colonies. The novel is set in France, in the first decades of the 1900s. It tells the story of a young woman who uncovers a well-kept family secret: her grandmother had had an affair and an African son who, like his mother, had been cast out by the family. This, of course, is no obstacle to a resolute young woman, ahead of her time, who makes contact with her Senegalese Uncle and, eventually, brings him back into the fold...
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