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Write to me quickly and at length by Françoise Sagan: forever the charming little monster

2021-11-24T15:16:55.641Z


CRITICAL - The one who symbolizes the carefree 1960s returns with her correspondence. That's all her. It is there, intact, in these hastily thrown letters sent from all over the world to her friend Véronique Campion. Together, they had missed the oral of the 1951 bac. This creates links. Françoise Sagan bombards her comrade (we don't have the answers) with little words, postcards, telegrams. There is this letterhead from 167, boulevard Malesherbes (phone: Carnot 03 59), these chick


That's all her. It is there, intact, in these hastily thrown letters sent from all over the world to her friend Véronique Campion. Together, they had missed the oral of the 1951 bac. This creates links. Françoise Sagan bombards her comrade (we don't have the answers) with little words, postcards, telegrams. There is this letterhead from 167, boulevard Malesherbes (phone: Carnot 03 59), these chickens sent from the Pierre Hotel in New York or the Sands in Las Vegas. She's Plick. Véronique, it's Plock. She also calls him

"my little old man"

, "

dear Verinoc", "my dear Toto".

Sometimes the sentences, handwritten or typed, are filled with spelling mistakes. We can spot his favorite expressions,

“au poil”, “zinzin”.

She buys a Jaguar, meets Marlon Brando, has fun in Jerusalem, reads

light Bergère

by Félicien Marceau, waterski.

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.

Glory follows.

She became Sagan, period.

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Source: lefigaro

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