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Françoise Sagan

January 01, 1970

Françoise Sagan (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swaz saɡɑ̃]; born Françoise Delphine Quoirez; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), which was written when she was a teenager.

Françoise Sagan
BornFrançoise Delphine Quoirez
(1935-06-21)21 June 1935
Cajarc, France
Died24 September 2004(2004-09-24) (aged 69)
Honfleur, France
Resting placeCimetière de Seuzac, Cajarc, France
Occupation
Spouse
Guy Schoeller
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(m. 1958; div. 1960)​

Bob Westhoff
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(m. 1962; div. 1963)​
Children1

Biography edit

Early life and career edit

Sagan was born on 21 June 1935 in Cajarc, Lot, and spent her early childhood in Lot, surrounded by animals, a passion that stayed with her throughout her life. Nicknamed 'Kiki', she was the youngest child of bourgeois parents – her father a company director, and her mother the daughter of landowners.

Her family spent World War II (1939–1945) in the Dauphiné, then in the Vercors.[1] Her paternal great-grandmother was Russian from Saint Petersburg.[2][3] The family had a home in the prosperous 17th arrondissement of Paris, to which they returned after the war.[4] Sagan was expelled from her first school, a convent, for "lack of deep spirituality". She was expelled from the Louise-de-Bettignies School because she had "hanged a bust of Molière with a piece of string".[5] She obtained her baccalauréat on the second attempt, at the cours Hattemer, and was admitted to the Sorbonne in the fall of 1952.[4] She was an indifferent student, and did not graduate.

The pseudonym "Sagan" was taken from a character (Princesse de Sagan [fr]) in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Sagan's first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), was published in 1954, when she was 18 years old. It was an immediate international success. The novel concerns the life of a pleasure-driven 17-year-old named Cécile and her relationship with her boyfriend and her widowed playboy father.

During a literary career lasting until 1998, Sagan produced dozens of works, many of which have been filmed. She maintained the austere style of the French psychological novel even while the nouveau roman was in vogue. The conversations between her characters are often considered[by whom?] to contain existential undertones. In addition to novels, plays, and an autobiography, she wrote song lyrics and screenplays.

In the 1960s, Sagan became more devoted to writing plays, which, though lauded for excellent dialogue, were only moderately successful. Afterward, she concentrated on her career as a novelist.

In 1960, at the height of the Algerian war, she signed the Manifesto of the 121. In retaliation, the extreme right-wing terrorist organization OAS planted a bomb at her parents' home on August 23, 1961, but the explosion caused only material damage.

Personal life edit

 
Sagan boarding a ferry during the honeymoon after her marriage with Robert Westhoff, 1962

Sagan was married twice. On 13 March 1958, she married her first husband, Guy Schoeller, an editor with Hachette, who was 20 years older than Sagan. The couple divorced in June, 1960. In 1962, she married Bob Westhoff, a young American playboy and would-be ceramicist. The couple divorced in 1963; their son Denis Westhoff was born in June 1962.[6] She then had a long-term relationship with fashion stylist Peggy Roche. She also had a male lover, Bernard Frank, a married essayist and began a long-term affair with the French Playboy editor Annick Geille, after Geille approached Sagan for an article for her magazine.[7]

Fond of traveling in the United States, Sagan often was seen with Truman Capote and Ava Gardner. On 14 April 1957, while driving her Aston Martin sports car at speed, she was involved in an accident that left her in a coma for some time. She also loved driving her Jaguar automobile to Monte Carlo for gambling sessions.

In the 1990s, Sagan was charged with and convicted of possession of cocaine.

In 2010, her son Denis established the Prix Françoise Sagan.

Death edit

Sagan’s health was reported to be poor in the 2000s. In 2002, she was unable to appear at a trial in which she was convicted of tax fraud in a case involving the former French President François Mitterrand and she received a suspended sentence. Sagan died of a pulmonary embolism in Honfleur, Calvados on 24 September 2004 at the age of 69.[8] At her own request she was buried in Seuzac (Lot), close to her beloved birthplace, Cajarc.

In his memorial statement, the French President Jacques Chirac said: "With her death, France loses one of its most brilliant and sensitive writers – an eminent figure of our literary life."

She wrote her own obituary for the Dictionary of Authors compiled by Jérôme Garcin: "Appeared in 1954 with a slender novel, Bonjour tristesse, which created a scandal worldwide. Her death, after a life and a body of work that were equally pleasant and botched, was a scandal only for herself."[9]

Film edit

Sagan's life was dramatized in a biographical film, Sagan, directed by Diane Kurys, released in France on 11 June 2008. The French actress Sylvie Testud played the title role.

Works edit

Novels edit

  • Bonjour Tristesse (1954, (Hello Sadness), translated 1955)
  • Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
  • Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated by Frances Frenaye, 1957)
  • Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959, translated 1960)
  • Les merveilleux nuages (1961, Wonderful Clouds, translated 1961)
  • La chamade (1965, translated 1966 as La Chamade; newly translated 2009 as That Mad Ache)
  • Le garde du cœur (1968, The Heart-Keeper, translated 1968)
  • Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969, Sunlight on Cold Water, translated 1971)
  • Des bleus à l'âme (1972, Scars on the Soul, translated 1974)
  • Un profil perdu (1974, Lost Profile, translated 1976)
  • Le lit défait (1977, The Unmade Bed, translated 1978)
  • Le chien couchant (1980, Salad Days, translated 1984)
  • La femme fardée (1981, The Painted Lady, translated 1983)
  • Un orage immobile (1983, The Still Storm, translated 1984)
  • De guerre lasse (1985, Engagements of the Heart (UK) / A Reluctant Hero (U.S.), translated 1987)
  • Un sang d'aquarelle (1987, Painting in Blood, translated 1991)
  • La laisse (1989, The Leash, translated 1991)
  • Les faux-fuyants (1991, Evasion, translated 1993)
  • Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
  • Le miroir égaré (1996)
  • Les Quatre coins du coeur (2020, The Four Corners of the Heart, translated by Sophie Lewis 2023)

Short story collections edit

  • Des yeux de soie (1975, Silken Eyes, translated 1977)
  • Musiques de scène (1981, Incidental Music, translated 1983)
  • La maison de Raquel Vega (1985)

Plays edit

  • Château en Suède (Château in Sweden) (1960)
  • Les violons parfois (1961)
  • La robe mauve de Valentine (1963)
  • Bonheur, impair et passe (1964)
  • L'écharde (1966)
  • Le cheval évanoui (1966)
  • Un piano dans l'herbe (1970)
  • Il fait beau jour et nuit (1978)
  • L'excès contraire (1987)

Ballet edit

  • Le Rendezvous Manqué (1958)[10]

Autobiographical works edit

  • Toxique (1964, journal, translated 1965)
  • Réponses (1975, Night Bird: Conversations with Françoise Sagan, translated 1980)
  • Avec mon meilleur souvenir (1984, With Fondest Regards, translated 1985)
  • Au marbre: chroniques retrovées 1952–1962 (1988, chronicles)
  • Répliques (1992, interviews)
  • ...Et toute ma sympathie (1993, a sequel to Avec mon meilleur souvenir)
  • Derrière l'épaule (1998, autobiography)

Published posthumously by L'Herne:

  • Bonjour New-York (2007)
  • Un certain regard (2008, compilation of material from Réponses and Répliques)
  • Maisons louées (2008)
  • Le régal des chacals (2008)
  • Au cinéma (2008)
  • De très bons livres (2008)
  • La petite robe noire (2008)
  • Lettre de Suisse (2008)

Biographical works edit

  • Brigitte Bardot (1975)
  • Sarah Bernhardt, ou le rire incassable (1987, Dear Sarah Bernhardt, translated 1988)

Selected filmography edit

Screenwriter edit

References edit

  1. ^ Paris Match 2889 29 Sep 2004
  2. ^ "SAGAN Francoise, photo, biography". persona.rin.ru. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Fransuaza Sagan - Women". the100.ru. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b Gaffney, John; Holmes, Diana (2007). Stardom in Postwar France. Berghahn Books. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-84545-020-5.
  5. ^ Berest, Anne (15 June 2015). Sagan, Paris 1954. Gallic Books, Limited. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-910477-15-1.
  6. ^ Paris Match 2889 29 Sep 2004
  7. ^ Campbell, Matthew, "Lesbian love triangle stirs Paris literati", The Sunday Times, 26 December 2007
  8. ^ "French literary icon Sagan dies", BBC, 25 September 2004
  9. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ Kaufman, Wolfe (21 January 1958). Written at Monte Carlo. "Francoise Sagan's Ballet Promising Though Everything Wrong at Break-In". Variety. New York (published 22 January 1958). p. 2. Retrieved 20 October 2021 – via Archive.org.

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Françoise Sagan.
  • Jean-Louis de Rambures, interview with F. Sagan (in French) in: "Comment travaillent les écrivains", Paris 1978
  • Blair Fuller & Robert B. Silvers (Autumn 1956). "Francoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". The Paris Review. Autumn 1956 (14).
  • French press bids farewell; BBC article

January 01, 1970
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Francoise Sagan French pronunciation fʁɑ swaz saɡɑ born Francoise Delphine Quoirez 21 June 1935 24 September 2004 was a French playwright novelist and screenwriter Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters Her best known novel was her first Bonjour Tristesse 1954 which was written when she was a teenager Francoise SaganBornFrancoise Delphine Quoirez 1935 06 21 21 June 1935Cajarc FranceDied24 September 2004 2004 09 24 aged 69 Honfleur FranceResting placeCimetiere de Seuzac Cajarc FranceOccupationNovelistscreenwriterdramatistSpouseGuy Schoeller m 1958 div 1960 wbr Bob Westhoff m 1962 div 1963 wbr Children1 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life and career 1 2 Personal life 1 3 Death 2 Film 3 Works 3 1 Novels 3 2 Short story collections 3 3 Plays 3 4 Ballet 3 5 Autobiographical works 3 6 Biographical works 4 Selected filmography 4 1 Screenwriter 5 References 6 External linksBiography editEarly life and career edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message Sagan was born on 21 June 1935 in Cajarc Lot and spent her early childhood in Lot surrounded by animals a passion that stayed with her throughout her life Nicknamed Kiki she was the youngest child of bourgeois parents her father a company director and her mother the daughter of landowners Her family spent World War II 1939 1945 in the Dauphine then in the Vercors 1 Her paternal great grandmother was Russian from Saint Petersburg 2 3 The family had a home in the prosperous 17th arrondissement of Paris to which they returned after the war 4 Sagan was expelled from her first school a convent for lack of deep spirituality She was expelled from the Louise de Bettignies School because she had hanged a bust of Moliere with a piece of string 5 She obtained her baccalaureat on the second attempt at the cours Hattemer and was admitted to the Sorbonne in the fall of 1952 4 She was an indifferent student and did not graduate The pseudonym Sagan was taken from a character Princesse de Sagan fr in Marcel Proust s A la recherche du temps perdu In Search of Lost Time Sagan s first novel Bonjour Tristesse Hello Sadness was published in 1954 when she was 18 years old It was an immediate international success The novel concerns the life of a pleasure driven 17 year old named Cecile and her relationship with her boyfriend and her widowed playboy father During a literary career lasting until 1998 Sagan produced dozens of works many of which have been filmed She maintained the austere style of the French psychological novel even while the nouveau roman was in vogue The conversations between her characters are often considered by whom to contain existential undertones In addition to novels plays and an autobiography she wrote song lyrics and screenplays In the 1960s Sagan became more devoted to writing plays which though lauded for excellent dialogue were only moderately successful Afterward she concentrated on her career as a novelist In 1960 at the height of the Algerian war she signed the Manifesto of the 121 In retaliation the extreme right wing terrorist organization OAS planted a bomb at her parents home on August 23 1961 but the explosion caused only material damage Personal life edit nbsp Sagan boarding a ferry during the honeymoon after her marriage with Robert Westhoff 1962 Sagan was married twice On 13 March 1958 she married her first husband Guy Schoeller an editor with Hachette who was 20 years older than Sagan The couple divorced in June 1960 In 1962 she married Bob Westhoff a young American playboy and would be ceramicist The couple divorced in 1963 their son Denis Westhoff was born in June 1962 6 She then had a long term relationship with fashion stylist Peggy Roche She also had a male lover Bernard Frank a married essayist and began a long term affair with the French Playboy editor Annick Geille after Geille approached Sagan for an article for her magazine 7 Fond of traveling in the United States Sagan often was seen with Truman Capote and Ava Gardner On 14 April 1957 while driving her Aston Martin sports car at speed she was involved in an accident that left her in a coma for some time She also loved driving her Jaguar automobile to Monte Carlo for gambling sessions In the 1990s Sagan was charged with and convicted of possession of cocaine In 2010 her son Denis established the Prix Francoise Sagan Death edit Sagan s health was reported to be poor in the 2000s In 2002 she was unable to appear at a trial in which she was convicted of tax fraud in a case involving the former French President Francois Mitterrand and she received a suspended sentence Sagan died of a pulmonary embolism in Honfleur Calvados on 24 September 2004 at the age of 69 8 At her own request she was buried in Seuzac Lot close to her beloved birthplace Cajarc In his memorial statement the French President Jacques Chirac said With her death France loses one of its most brilliant and sensitive writers an eminent figure of our literary life She wrote her own obituary for the Dictionary of Authors compiled by Jerome Garcin Appeared in 1954 with a slender novel Bonjour tristesse which created a scandal worldwide Her death after a life and a body of work that were equally pleasant and botched was a scandal only for herself 9 Film editSagan s life was dramatized in a biographical film Sagan directed by Diane Kurys released in France on 11 June 2008 The French actress Sylvie Testud played the title role Works editNovels edit Bonjour Tristesse 1954 Hello Sadness translated 1955 Un certain sourire 1955 A Certain Smile translated 1956 Dans un mois dans un an 1957 Those Without Shadows translated by Frances Frenaye 1957 Aimez vous Brahms 1959 translated 1960 Les merveilleux nuages 1961 Wonderful Clouds translated 1961 La chamade 1965 translated 1966 as La Chamade newly translated 2009 as That Mad Ache Le garde du cœur 1968 The Heart Keeper translated 1968 Un peu de soleil dans l eau froide 1969 Sunlight on Cold Water translated 1971 Des bleus a l ame 1972 Scars on the Soul translated 1974 Un profil perdu 1974 Lost Profile translated 1976 Le lit defait 1977 The Unmade Bed translated 1978 Le chien couchant 1980 Salad Days translated 1984 La femme fardee 1981 The Painted Lady translated 1983 Un orage immobile 1983 The Still Storm translated 1984 De guerre lasse 1985 Engagements of the Heart UK A Reluctant Hero U S translated 1987 Un sang d aquarelle 1987 Painting in Blood translated 1991 La laisse 1989 The Leash translated 1991 Les faux fuyants 1991 Evasion translated 1993 Un chagrin de passage 1994 A Fleeting Sorrow translated 1995 Le miroir egare 1996 Les Quatre coins du coeur 2020 The Four Corners of the Heart translated by Sophie Lewis 2023 Short story collections edit Des yeux de soie 1975 Silken Eyes translated 1977 Musiques de scene 1981 Incidental Music translated 1983 La maison de Raquel Vega 1985 Plays edit Chateau en Suede Chateau in Sweden 1960 Les violons parfois 1961 La robe mauve de Valentine 1963 Bonheur impair et passe 1964 L echarde 1966 Le cheval evanoui 1966 Un piano dans l herbe 1970 Il fait beau jour et nuit 1978 L exces contraire 1987 Ballet edit Le Rendezvous Manque 1958 10 Autobiographical works edit Toxique 1964 journal translated 1965 Reponses 1975 Night Bird Conversations with Francoise Sagan translated 1980 Avec mon meilleur souvenir 1984 With Fondest Regards translated 1985 Au marbre chroniques retrovees 1952 1962 1988 chronicles Repliques 1992 interviews Et toute ma sympathie 1993 a sequel to Avec mon meilleur souvenir Derriere l epaule 1998 autobiography Published posthumously by L Herne Bonjour New York 2007 Un certain regard 2008 compilation of material from Reponses and Repliques Maisons louees 2008 Le regal des chacals 2008 Au cinema 2008 De tres bons livres 2008 La petite robe noire 2008 Lettre de Suisse 2008 Biographical works edit Brigitte Bardot 1975 Sarah Bernhardt ou le rire incassable 1987 Dear Sarah Bernhardt translated 1988 Selected filmography editBonjour Tristesse directed by Otto Preminger 1958 based on the novel Bonjour Tristesse A Certain Smile directed by Jean Negulesco 1958 based on the novel A Certain Smile Love Play directed by Francois Moreuil and Fabien Collin 1961 based on the short story La Recreation Goodbye Again directed by Anatole Litvak 1961 based on the novel Aimez vous Brahms Nutty Naughty Chateau directed by Roger Vadim 1963 based on the play Chateau en Suede La Chamade directed by Alain Cavalier 1968 based on the novel La Chamade Un peu de soleil dans l eau froide directed by Jacques Deray 1971 based on the novel Un peu de soleil dans l eau froide The Blue Ferns directed by Francoise Sagan 1977 TV film based on the short story Des yeux de soie Bonheur impair et passe directed by Roger Vadim 1977 TV film based on the play Bonheur impair et passe De guerre lasse fr directed by Robert Enrico 1987 based on the novel De guerre lasse La Femme fardee fr directed by Jose Pinheiro 1990 based on the novel La Femme fardee Chateau en Suede fr directed by Josee Dayan 2008 TV film based on the play Chateau en Suede Screenwriter edit Landru directed by Claude Chabrol 1963 The Ball of Count Orgel directed by Marc Allegret 1970 References edit Paris Match 2889 29 Sep 2004 SAGAN Francoise photo biography persona rin ru Retrieved 13 April 2018 Fransuaza Sagan Women the100 ru Retrieved 13 April 2018 a b Gaffney John Holmes Diana 2007 Stardom in Postwar France Berghahn Books p 178 ISBN 978 1 84545 020 5 Berest Anne 15 June 2015 Sagan Paris 1954 Gallic Books Limited p 7 ISBN 978 1 910477 15 1 Paris Match 2889 29 Sep 2004 Campbell Matthew Lesbian love triangle stirs Paris literati The Sunday Times 26 December 2007 French literary icon Sagan dies BBC 25 September 2004 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 23 September 2015 Retrieved 3 October 2014 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Kaufman Wolfe 21 January 1958 Written at Monte Carlo Francoise Sagan s Ballet Promising Though Everything Wrong at Break In Variety New York published 22 January 1958 p 2 Retrieved 20 October 2021 via Archive org External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Francoise Sagan Jean Louis de Rambures interview with F Sagan in French in Comment travaillent les ecrivains Paris 1978 Litweb net Blair Fuller amp Robert B Silvers Autumn 1956 Francoise Sagan The Art of Fiction No 15 The Paris Review Autumn 1956 14 French press bids farewell BBC article Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Francoise Sagan amp oldid 1223182686, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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