Sagan, Paris 1954

Before Francoise Sagan the literary icon there was Francoise Quoirez, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, who wrote a novel and needed a publisher for it. This intimate narrative charts the months in 1954 leading up to the publication of the legendary Bonjour Tristesse. We encounter Franoise, her family and friends close-up, in a post-war world that is changing radically; and Mlle Quoirez, in her ...