- She has her look-alike puppet in the French show, Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
- She wrote the best-selling novel "Bonjour Tristesse" in six weeks while a student at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1953. It sold more than two million copies worldwide and has been translated into at least 15 languages.
- Was passionate about animals.
- The boy from her second marriage is named Denis
- She chose her pen name from a character in "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu", by Marcel Proust.
- President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 32nd Cannes International Film Festival in 1979.
- Long time companion of Peggy Roche (Paris,1 February 1929- 7 September1991, Paris) who was a model, journalist and designer. They are interred near each other in a Lot cemetery. Peggy was the ex-wife of Claude Brasseur. Peggy is portrayed by Jeanne Balibar in Sagan (2008).
- Author, playwright, she was friend from high-school of Florence Malraux.
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