Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary... This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cecile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences. Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible Cecile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.

Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cecile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father — a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye — for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cecile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a tall and almost beautiful law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cecile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart... with tragic, unexpected consequences. The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.

Francoise Sagan n'a voulu se souvenir que des moments heureux et que des gens qu'elle a aimes. C'est ce qui rend ce livre si sympathique et ce qui a fait son succes aupres du public et de la critique. Billie Holiday, Orson Welles, Jean-Paul Sartre, Carson Mc Cullers, Marie Bell, Rudolf Noureev, Tennessee Williams... Autant de portraits et d'histoires inoubliables.

New York, Capri, Naples, Venise, Cuba, Jérusalem... autant de destinations d'écrivains, de milliardaires, d'assoiffés de vie et d'imprévus. De ces villes mythiques, Françoise Sagan rapporta des tableaux saisissant d'une plume vive et légère l'esprit de chaque lieu. La retrouver avec ces petits carnets de voyage est un pur bonheur. Bonjour New York rassemble quatre reportages de Françoise Sagan, écrits en 1956 pour le magazine Elle. Maisons louées réunit des articles publiés dans L'Egoïste, L'Express, Elle, Vogue, Senso ou encore Le Monde.