Françoise Sagan’s later love affair with Jaguars and Aston-Martin sports cars may have been a desperate psychological effort to overcome in later life the morbid shyness of her childhood.

Francoise Sagan, writer of the bestselling novel “Bonjour Tristesse” about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, died September 24 in Honfleur, France of heart and lung failure.

Published in 1954 when Françoise Sagan was only 18 years-old, Bonjour Tristesse shocked critics for its frank account of young female sexuality but ultimately had resounding success with over two ...

Francoise Sagan became a sensation at 18 for writing "Bonjour Tristesse," her mega-selling novel of a rich teenager's treachery toward her father's mistress. In August 1953, the bored and bohemian ...

1958 was quite the year for French novelist Françoise Sagan, who had not one but two film versions of her works given the Hollywood treatment: A Certain Smile and Bonjour Tristesse.

Caroline Loeb, star of the 1980s pop music scene, becomes Françoise Sagan, the vibrant, passionate novelist who found success at the age of 18 with the (then) scandalous 1954 novel "Bonjour ...

Françoise Sagan, née Françoise Quoirez le 21 juin 1935 à Cajarc dans le Lot, est une romancière et scénariste française. Après une scolarité ...

The 1958 version of “Bonjour Tristesse” is everything Hollywood seems to be wary of these days: a notoriously mean, allegedly misogynistic filmmaker’s interpretation of a book written by and ...

Adapted for the stage from “Je ne renie rien” by Françoise Sagan, published by Stock Saturday, November 4th at 8:00pm Students/Senior Tickets: $35. Regular Admission Tickets: $45.

Alfred Cismaru, Françoise Sagan: The Superficial Classic, World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 291-294 ...