“The Great Francoise” is what she called herself. At the young age of nineteen, Françoise shocked French society by publishing the novel Hello, Sadness. The novel became a bestseller, and fame suddenly fell on the graduate of a prestigious Catholic college. Then life turned into a kind of amusement park - a lot of fun and an invariable drop of fear. The writer published 24 novels and numerous short stories, plays, and novellas. French newspaper publishers were happy to publish her essays, and her fees grew by leaps and bounds. While creating novels about fragile love, she herself continually became the heroine of gossip columns, calling herself a “playgirl.” She was always afraid of banalities and avoided stereotypes as best she could. Francoise Sagan was not only an amazing writer who deeply felt life and knew how to reflect the entire kaleidoscope of human emotions in her works, she was the brightest personality of her era.