Cajarcįrançoise Quoirez was born on 21 June 1935 to a bourgeois family at 45 Boulevard du Tour-de-Ville in Cajarc. I often can’t control myself.Īside from Paris, two places were of central significance to Sagan: Cajarc, her birthplace in the Lot, and the little town of Saint-Tropez in the South of France. I’ve led an agitated existence, a life of peripeteia, God only knows why! I’m impulsive. With the fame came a wild, extravagant, drug and alcohol fuelled way of life. She was labelled one of France’s greatest exports, along with Edith Piaf and Chanel No. Overnight, the media turned her into a star, an It Girl of literature. She wrote it over the course of her summer holiday from her studies at the Sorbonne when she was just eighteen years of age, and she took the name of a princess in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as her nom de plume. Françoise Sagan caused a sensation in 1954 with her debut novel Bonjour Tristesse.
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