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“…you have always leaped into the fray to defend the weak and the oppressed; you have had faith in people and causes and in truths. You have sometimes made mistakes—all of us do—but, unlike the rest of us, you have always admitted your mistakes. You have consistently rejected any idea of distinction or material benefits for your achievement. You refused the supposed honor of the Nobel Prize when you had nothing. You were knocked down three times by terrorist bombs…. You have not clamored for justice because you do not wish to make judgments…. You have often preferred to be used and duped rather than to remain indifferent, and often to be disappointed rather than to deny hope. What an exemplary life for a man who never sought to set an example!“

– Francoise Sagan, 

Love Letter to Jean-Paul Sartre

Francoise Sagan, author of a bestseller at 19, always dressed fashionably and was often photographed at the wheel of a sports car. She almost died when her Aston-Martin went off the road in Normandy in the late ’50s. After the accident she became dependent on morphine.


She plowed through two unsuccessful marriages, attended innumerable all-night parties and enjoyed sex with both men and women. After her second marriage with Robert James Westhoff broke up, she lived with stylist Peggy Roche until Roche became ill and died. As Sagan aged, she fell prey to flatterers and sycophants. In her later years she refused to see her son Denis and died alone, attended only by her housekeeper.

                                       Sigh. She found her
                                           way to 
Samarra.
 

 

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