Nicknamed Kiki but her pseudonym she took from a character, the The title of theīook came from Paul Eluard. Writing her first novel, Bonjour tristesse. She failed in 1953 the second-year examinationįor higher academic degrees and spent several weeks during the summer Sagan was educated at convent schools and attended the
After the liberation of France in 1944, the family The provinces, living mainly in Lyon Sagan also spent some time in The family moved at the outbreak of World War II to Third child of Pierre Quoirez, a prosperous industrialist, and Marie by Irene Ashe, 1956)įrançoise Sagan was born Françoise Quoirez in the village ofĬajarc, in southwestern France, into a well-to-do family. Gratitude, you discover your own, its lenght, its smell." Through someone else's body that, first warily and then with a rush of It was on his body that I had discovered the odor of mine. In her later life, Sagan was twice convicted of cocaine charges. It was a succes de scandaleįor its depiction of a young woman breaking up her father'sĪffair. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Zįrançoise Sagan (1935-2004) - pseudonym of Françoiseįrench novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, whoseĭispassionate portrayals of bored, amoral middle-class people have been
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