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...DIED. FRAN?OISE SAGAN, 69, rebellious intellectual and writer; in Honfleur, France. Born Fran?oise Quoirez, she published her first book, Bonjour Tristesse, under the pseudonym Sagan in 1954 when she was 18 years old. A precocious novel of sexual disillusionment, it became a huge hit at home and sold more than a million copies in the U.S. Known for her love of drinking, fast cars and gambling as much as for her influential friendships with the likes of Tennessee Williams and French President Fran?ois Mitterrand, Sagan went on to write more than 50 books and plays over her career...
...having suspected ties to terrorists. He returned to London, saying, "The whole thing is totally ridiculous," and vowed to challenge the ban. DIED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich; in Honfleur, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Though she never matched the success of her first book, Sagan went on to write 30 novels, as well as short stories and plays . DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist...
...most complete group of Seurat's drawings -- and drawing, for him, was absolutely fundamental -- ever assembled, together with the oil sketches and finished studies for the big works (more than 30 for La Grande Jatte alone); the landscapes of the Ile de France; the exquisite seascapes of Gravelines and Honfleur; and the theater scenes, like the brooding and mysterious frieze of musicians and chattering spectators at the Cirque Corvi known as the Parade de Cirque, 1887-88. In the studies, particularly, one sees Seurat's major ambition working itself out: his conservative but in fact deeply radical desire to reconstruct...
...savor the creamy countryside of Normandy had to cope with traffic and train schedules. But now, if they wish, they can finally take to the water and its welcome privacies. The M.S. Normandie, the first sleep-aboard luxury cruise ship to shuttle the Seine, made its maiden voyage from Honfleur to Paris this month, arriving to fireworks and Gershwin and a flotilla of welcoming rivercraft...
...night Seine cruises, which cost about $1,000, will depart alternately from Honfleur and Paris each week until fall. If the reactions of the first voyagers are any indication, the journey was worth the wait. "The trip has been far more than I expected," said Art Russell, a retired mechanical engineer from Vero Beach, Fla. "You see things from the boat that, from the road, are hidden." Agreed passenger Hamilton Perkins Jr.: "We've made 35 trips to Europe, and this was the best ever. It's the most beautiful countryside I've ever seen." Those wishing to follow...