Sagan love triangle

A former magazine editor has caused a sensation in Parisian literary circles with a memoir exposing the “love triangle” she shared with Françoise Sagan and the famous novelist’s boyfriend.

The relationship between Annick Geille, a former editor of French Playboy, and the wayward, waif-like Sagan was an open secret in Paris and the first detailed account of it has stirred nostalgia among literati for a time when French writers were feted worldwide and seemed much more colourful. “From these beautiful pages,” wrote a critic of Geille’s book, Un Amour de Sagan, “wafts the strange perfume of a time lost for ever.”