Françoise Sagan (June 21, 1935–September 24, 2004), real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter, best known for strong romantic themes involving middle-class characters. June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ...

Sagan was born in Cajarc, Aveyron, where she lived for the first few years of her life, until her family moved to Lyon at the outset of World War II. She failed entrance examinations to the Sorbonne in 1953 mainly due to her active nightlife in the Paris clubs. Though notorious all her life for her extravagant lifestyle, she would later attend school there but without graduating. Aveyron is a département in southern France named after the Aveyron River. ... This article is about the French city. ...

Her first novel was published in 1954, at the age of 18. Bonjour Tristesse (meaning "Hello/goodbye sadness") and was an immediate international success. It concerns the life of pleasure-driven 17-year-old Cécile, in particular her relationship with her boyfriend and her adulterous, playboy father. The novel allegedly influenced the Simon & Garfunkel song The Sounds of Silence. Her pseudonym was taken from a character in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bonjour Tristesse (in English, Hello, Sadness) is a novel by Fran oise Sagan. ... Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ... Sounds of Silence is an album by Simon and Garfunkel released January 17, 1966. ... A pseudonym is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past). ... In Search of Lost Time (a translation of the original À la recherche du temps perdu) is a sequence of 7 novels by French writer Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927. ...

Sagan's characters became something of an icon for disillusioned teenagers, in some ways similar to those of J.D. Salinger. She produced dozens of works during a career lasting until 1996, many of which have been filmed. Sporting the austere style of the French psychological novel even while nouveau roman became popular, the conversations between her characters are often considered to contain existential undertones. In addition to novels, plays, and autobiography, she also wrote song lyrics and screenplays. Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ... Nouveau roman refers to certain 1950s French novels that diverged from classical literary genres. ... Existentialism is a unilateral philosophical movement that views the individual, the self, the individuals experience, and the uniqueness therein as the only reality. ...

Fond of travelling in the United States, she was often seen with Truman Capote. She was once involved in a car accident and nearly died. Truman Capote by Harold Halma, 1948. ...

She was married twice, to Guy Schoeller and Bob Westhof, but both marriages ended in divorce.

In the 1960s, Sagan became more devoted to writing plays, which, though lauded for excellent dialogues, were only moderately successful. Afterwards, she resumed her career as a novelist. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ...

Her health was reported to be poor in the decade of the 2000s. In 2002 she was unable to appear at a trial in which she was convicted of tax fraud involving François Mitterrand, and she received a suspended sentence. She died at the age of 69 in Honfleur, Calvados. This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. ... François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterand ( October 26, 1916 - January 8, 1996;  pronunciation?) was a French politician and President of France from May 1981, re-elected in 1988, until 1995. ... A suspended sentence is a legal construct. ... Honfleur is a harbour commune in the Norman (département of the Calvados) located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine, very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. ... Alternate use, see Calvados, The French département of Calvados forms part of the région of Basse-Normandie in Normandy. ...

The character of Margot Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenenbaums is allegedly based partly on Françoise Sagan. The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 film - half a comedy, half a drama. ...

Works

Novels

• Bonjour Tristesse
• Un certain sourire (A Certain Smile)
• Les merveilleux nuages
• Aimez-vous Brahms?
• La chamade
• Les yeux de soie (Silken Eyes)
• Le lit defait (The Unmade Bed)
• Le garde du coeur (The Heart-Keeper)

Plays

• Chateâu en Suède (Chateau in Sweden) (1960)

Autobiography

• Toxique (1964)
• Des bleus à l'âme (Scars on The Soul) (1972, translated 1974)
• Avec mon meilleur souvenir (With Fondest Regards) (1984, translated 1985)