Françoise Sagan (born Françoise Quoirez; 21 June 1935 â€" 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 â€" Bonjour Tristesse (1954) â€" which was written when
she was a teenager.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 â€" her father a company
director, and her mother the daughter of landowners.Her family spent
World War II (1939â€"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.
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 â€" Bonjour Tristesse (1954) â€" which was written when
she was a teenager.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 â€" her father a company
director, and her mother the daughter of landowners.Her family spent
World War II (1939â€"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.
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