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The Literary ‘It’ Girl Who Continues to Fascinate

Françoise Sagan’s first novel “Bonjour Tristesse” was published in 1954. With a new film adaptation, the book and its author still holds sway.

By Sadie Stein

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The Literary ‘It’ Girl Who Continues to Fascinate

Françoise Sagan’s first novel “Bonjour Tristesse” was published in 1954. With a new film adaptation, the book and its author still holds sway.

By Sadie Stein

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Bertrand Blier, Acclaimed Director of Sexually Blunt Films, Dies at 85

A much-decorated French filmmaker, he divided audiences and critics with explorations, often darkly comic but brutal, of misogyny and the male sexual imagination.

By Adam Nossiter

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Albertine, New York’s Most Charming French Bookstore

Albertine, in a Fifth Avenue mansion, is a portal to both Gilded Age New York and the Francophone world.

By Reggie Nadelson