The writer Francois Mauriac described her as "a charming little monster." She was written about as "a notorious representative of the younger generation," a symbol of fashionable rebellion in postwar Europe. She became a central figure in self-consciously glamorous film and literary society she lunched, drank and otherwise frolicked with Tennessee Williams, Henry Miller, Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and Juliette Greco. With her gamine face and a giant thirst for whiskey, shiny red Jaguars and thrilling sex, Ms. The book was translated into 20 languages, sold 2 million copies and was made into a 1958 movie directed by Otto Preminger and starring Jean Seberg, David Niven and Deborah Kerr.Īnother of her early books, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" ("Do You Like Brahms?"), about a businessman whose mistress catches the eye of a younger man, was made into a film, "Goodbye Again" (1961), with Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins and Yves Montand. "Bonjour Tristesse" ("Hello Sorrow") made her independently wealthy at a young age. 24 at a hospital near her home in Normandy, spent the rest of her life trying to repeat her precocious literary success while living hedonistically amid fast and dangerous cars and men. Sagan, 69, who died of heart and lung ailments Sept. In August 1953, the bored and bohemian author, having flunked out of the Sorbonne, secluded herself in her room and typed out 200 pages that made her a celebrity for the next half-century.
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.
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