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Françoise Vergès is the second daughter of Laurence Deroin and of the politician Paul Vergès. She is also the niece of Jacques Vergès.

Her father, son of a doctor and consul during the colonial era, has been a deputy, member of the European Parliament, senator, president of the Regional Council of Réunion and mayor of Le Port.

Her great-great-grand mother, Marie Hermelinde Million des Marquets, épouse Vergès, is from a slave owner family at La Réunion. They were owners of a 49 acres plantation and, according to the 1848 act, of "121 slaves, from which 66 were Creoles, 12 Malagasies, 39 Mozambican and 4 Indians or Malays".