Word: honfleur
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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...