Bonjour vitesse

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Let’s stick to France for another little while, with all its good food, wines, oh – and with RétroMobile brimming with automotive joys. This week’s Friday Lady was perhaps the country’s arch model for feminism at one stage. It’s no secret that Françoise Sagan was more then a chain smoking, drug abusing and alcoholic novelist who loved both men as women. She was known for her affection of cars - from a young age - too. British cars mainly, with the Française being photographed in her Jaguars, Aston Martins and AC Ace more often then Alain Delon in his Ferrari.

An Aston famously got her nearly killed in a heavy crash in Milly-la-Foret in 1957, which didn’t stop her from being seen in fast Lancias and Ferraris. No French cars then? Oh yes, we found a picture of her in this aerodynamic Gordini racer (a 1953 Le Mans entry it seems), but foremost in the great Grégoire Sport of that same year, seen above. But, oh-la-la, it didn’t bring them too much good, as Grégoire got under not much later, and Sagan returned to her British and Italian sports cars... Any of you who knows what happened to this rare French coupe?

(words Jeroen Booij, picture courtesy Paris Match)

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