THE story of Françoise Sagan has often been told. It is the familiar saga of the Cinderella variety, the spectacular success story of the browbeaten little girl whose unsuspected gifts one day startle ...

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. She was 69.

Toronto (Canada) (AFP) – When Canadian writer Durga Chew-Bose was asked to pen a new film adaptation of Francoise Sagan's hit 1954 coming-of-age novel "Bonjour Tristesse," she jumped at the chance, ...

She had been staying in the Normandy town of Honfleur, and passed away with a close friend and her son by her side, a hospital official told French radio. French President Jacques Chirac and Prime ...

Francoise Sagan, the French writer who made international headlines as a teenager with her precocious first novel, "Bonjour Tristesse," died Friday. She was 69. Ms. Sagan died of heart and lung ...

Françoise Sagan is best, perhaps solely, known in English for her 1954 novel Bonjour, Tristesse, which she wrote when she was 18. She published a dozen more novels, among them this one, called La ...

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the posthumously published novel called 'The Four Corners of the Heart,' authored by the celebrated French writer Françoise Sagan. Notably, Sagan, ...

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Françoise Sagan, the French novelist who wrote Bonjour Tristesse, an anthem to disillusioned youth that was one of the best-known books of the 20th century, died yesterday aged 69. Family friends said ...

One of France's most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69. Sagan was catapulted into the limelight in 1954, when she was 18, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse ...