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born in I935.Her father is aprosperous Paris industrialist whose family wereoriginally Spanish.She took her nom de plume fromthe Princesse de Sagan of Marcel Proust.She waseighteen years old when she wrote her best-sellingBonjour Tristesse.She had failed to pass her examina-tions at the Sorbonne and she decided to write a novel.The book received great acclaim in France,where inI959 it had sold 85o,0oo copies,and also abroad.Hersecond and third books,A Certain Smile and TboseWitbout Shadows,have also had tremendous popularityin France,Great Britain,and the U.S.A.Her fourthbook,Aimez-vous Brabms...appeared in I959.Allthese books have been published in Penguins.In I96Ishe published Wonderful Clouds.  \nHer hobby is driving fast cars,of which she hasfive,and in I957 she was involved in a bad roadaccident.Her ballet The Broken Date has been producedin Paris and London.  \nAlso available in Penguins:  \n# AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS...BONJOUR TRISTESSETHOSE WITHOUT SHADOws\n\nNot for sale in the U.S.A.or Canada  \n.  \nA CERTAIN SMILEFrancoise Sagan  \n# TRANSLATED BY\n\nIRENE ASH  \nPenguin Books Ltd,Harmondsworth,Middlesex,EnglandPenguin Books Pty Ltd,Ringwood,Victoria,Australiali  \n# Un Certain Sourire first published r956This translation first published by John Murray I956Published in Penguin Books I960.Reprinted r96r,I964\n\n一  \nThis translation copyright ◎John Murray,I956  \n一  \nMade and printed in Great Britainby Cox &Wyman LtdLondon,Reading,and FakenhamSet in Monotype Garamond  \nThis book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not,by way of trade,be lentre-sold,hired out,or otherwise disposedof without the publisher's consent,in any form of binding or coverother than that in whichit is published  \n# A FLORENCE MALRAUX\n\n# PART ONE\n\n# L'amour c'est ce qui se passeentre deux personnesqui s'aiment\n\nROGER VAILLAND","cbCaikY6t8NTKkBm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikY6t8NTKkBm","pdf",4174001,116,"English","# A Certain Smile\n## Biographical Note on Françoise 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