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A Certain Smile
1956 novel by Françoise Sagan
This article is about the Françoise Sagan novel. For other uses, see A Certain Smile (disambiguation).
A Certain Smile was originally published in French as Un certain sourire by the Paris publisher Juillard in 1956.[1] It was the second novel by Françoise Sagan and was written in two months.
Two translations into English then followed in 1956. That by Anne Green was published by E.P. Dutton in New York[2] and that by Irene Ash was published by John Murray in London,[3] followed in the same year by a Penguin Books paperback edition.[4] The story is related by a Parisian student who has an experimental love affair with a much older man.
Plot
Dominique is a sophisticated twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris who is introduced by her lover Bertrand to his uncle and aunt, the worldly businessman Luc and his wife Françoise.
Both Luc and Dominique are aware of the