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Françoise Sagan

AKA Françoise Quoirez

Born: 21-Jun-1935
Birthplace: Cajarc, Lot, France
Died: 24-Sep-2004
Location of death: Honfleur, Calvados, France
Cause of death: Respiratory failure [1]
Remains: Buried, Seuzac Village Cemetery, Cajarc, France

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual [2]
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Bonjour Tristesse


[1] Blood clot to the lung.

[2] Angelique Chrisafis, "Bonjour Françoise: France in thrall to Sagan", The Guardian, 31 May 2008: "With her first payment she bought a Jaguar, setting the tone for a 'female playboy' lifestyle which would involve every luxury make of racing car, gambling and a bisexual love life in which she seduced a long list of glamorous women, including the film star Ava Gardner." Also, Matthew Campbell, "Lesbian love tangle stirs Paris literati", Sunday Times, 16 December 2007: "The relationship between Annick Geille, a former editor of French Playboy, and the wayward, waif-like Sagan was an open secret in Paris and the first detailed account of it has stirred nostalgia among literati for a time when French writers were feted worldwide and seemed much more colourful."

Father: Pierre Quoirez
Mother: Marie Laubard
Husband: Guy Schoeller (publisher, m. 1958, div. 1960)
Husband: Robert James Westhoff (ceramicist/sculptor, m. 1962, div. 1963, one son)
Son: Denis
Girlfriend: Peggy Roche (fashion stylist)
Boyfriend: Bernard Frank
Girlfriend: Annick Geille (editor, Playboy France)
Slept with:
Ava Gardner (according to Guardian article)

    University: Sorbonne (two years)

    Drug Possession: Cocaine 1990 (convicted)
    Drug Possession: Cocaine 1990 (convicted)
    Tax Fraud 2002 (convicted)
    Risk Factors: Gambling, Cocaine, Morphine

Author of books:
Bonjour Tristesse (1954, novel)
Un certain sourire (1955, novel)
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, novel)
Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959, novel)
Les Merveilleux Nuages (1961, novel)
Toxique (1964, novel)
La Chamade (1965, novel)
Le Garde du coeur (1968, novel)
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969, novel)
Des bleus à l'âme (1972, novel)
Un profil perdu (1974, novel)
Brigitte Bardot (1975, novel)
Les yeux de soie (1975, short stories)
Le lit défait (1977, novel)
Le Chien couchant (1980, novel)
La femme fardée (1981, novel)
Musiques de scène (1981, short stories)
Un orage immobile (1983, novel)
Avec mon meilleur souvenir (1984)
De guerre lasse (1985, novel)
La Maison de Raquel Vega (1985, novel)
Sarah Bernhardt, ou le rire incassable (1987, novel)
Un sang d'aquarelle (1987, novel)
La Laisse (1989, novel)
Les Faux-Fuyants (1991, novel)
...Et toute ma sympathie (1993)
Chagrin de passage (1994, novel)
Le Miroir égar (1996, novel)
Derrière l'épaule (1998, memoir)


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