Her son said the novel was typically sarcastic and “Saganesque – an incredible adventure, sometimes impudent, with a baroque tone”. She published more than 40 books, novels and essays. The young Sagan was a bisexual hedonist who scandalised Parisian society as the first sparks of the youth revolution began to fly in the late 1950s. The novelist Françoise Sagan may have died leaving a debt of more than 600,000 (£470,000) after tax evasion and corruption scandals. The incident did not extinguish her love of cars and, after she recovered, she would drive from Paris to Monte Carlo to gamble at its casino tables. But, like Sagan, he has a serious car accident, and then becomes amorously entangled with his mother-in-law.Īt the height of Sagan’s fame in 1957, she crashed her Aston Martin and fell into a coma. First published: 1954 (English translation, 1955) Type of work: Novel A teenage girl, Cécile, is vacationing in the south of France with her father and his lover, when an old family friend. It is centred on an unusual love triangle involving Ludovic Cresson, a businessman who made his fortune in vegetable production. Like her debut novel, which Sagan wrote at 17, the latest release is a laconic dissection of the lives of the haute bourgeoisie. Rumours had been rife in Paris of a shock entry into rentrée littéraire, the frenetic weeks in autumn when most of the year’s biggest titles are published.
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