"Bonjour Tristesse" ("Hello Sorrow") made her independently wealthy at a young age. 24 at a hospital near her home in Normandy, spent the rest of her life trying to repeat her precocious literary success while living hedonistically amid fast and dangerous cars and men. Sagan, 69, who died of heart and lung ailments Sept. In August 1953, the bored and bohemian author, having flunked out of the Sorbonne, secluded herself in her room and typed out 200 pages that made her a celebrity for the next half-century. Francoise Sagan became a sensation at 18 for writing "Bonjour Tristesse," her mega-selling novel of a rich teenager's treachery toward her father's mistress.
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