Françoise Sagan (1935 – 2004), real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was best known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters.
Sagan was married twice: both times less than 2.5 years, and she had a son, Denis, born in June 1963.After her 2nd divorce, she took a lesbian long-term lover, fashion stylist Peggy Roche, and had a male lover, Bernard Frank, a married essayist obsessed with reading and eating. She added to her self-styled "family" by beginning a long-term lesbian affair with the French Playboy magazine editor Annick Geille, after she approached Sagan for an article for her magazine.
Fond of traveling in the US, she was often seen with Truman Capote and Ava Gardner. On 14 April 1957, while driving her Aston-Martin, she was involved in an accident that left her in a coma for some time. She also loved driving her Jaguar to Monte Carlo for gambling sessions.
In the 1990s Sagan was charged with and convicted of possession of cocaine.
Sagan was, at various times of her life, addicted to a number of drugs. She was a long-term user of prescription pills, amphetamines, cocaine, morphine, and alcohol. When the police came for an inspection of her house, her dog Banko showed cocaine to them and also licked the cocaine. Sagan told the police, "Look! he likes it too."
Sagan died 24 September 2004 at the age of 69. At her own request she was buried at her beloved birthplace, Cajarc.
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