Fleurs Captives – French Version of Flowers in the Attic

1981 French Edition of Flowers in the Attic

Literally meaning Captive Flowers, the earliest version I can find was published by J’ai Lu in 1981.

First French Edition 1981

According to Noosfere, the translation was by Michel Deutsch and the Illustration by Gyula KONKOLY, a particularly famous artist who did many book illustrations for the publisher at the time. It was released in the third quarter of 1981.

The fourth edition of the book has an interesting blurb which translates as :

   I have read exclusively offers you the author that America has just discovered: Virginia Andrews. The four young heroes of his first novel Captive Flowers have moved millions of readers.
     Discover in your turn these four children sequestered in an immense and dark attic, with just enough to subsist. For only a few weeks, they were told …     So, to forget, they make this attic the kingdom of their games and their dreams, the secret refuge of their tenderness, sheltered from the world.     But the weeks become months, years … and the attic, a hell for these children, become adolescents, who discover the hatreds and desires of adults.     Their only dream now is to get away from it all … at any cost

1986 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

1986 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

1996 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

1998 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

1999 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

1999 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

2001 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

2001 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

Early 2000s Edition of Flowers in the Attic

2017 Edition of Flowers in the Attic

Disclaimer: I have put together this from the best of my research and through information found on the Internet. All dates are to the best of my knowledge.

Sources :Livraddict, Noosfere, Wikipedia (French Version)