Francoise sagan sagan francoise vol 17 essay

Along with her modesty, and her capacity to be gracefully ironic, Sagan was a good friend. Sartre became a friend in the last years of his life, and she wrote a wonderful portrait of him. But she was, first and foremost, a serious writer.

Sagan could be said to be re-interpreting Scott Fitzgerald in the light of existentialism.

With the death of the French writer Françoise Sagan, at the age of 69, one of the last links with the famous French intellectual scene of St Germain-des-Près has disappeared.

Whether dressed in blue jeans and a cardigan at her typewriter with her cat, "Brahms," perched in her lap or donning an elegant black gown for post-ballet cocktails at Maxim’s in Paris, Sagan’s independent spirit and timeless taste remained omnipresent.