Route de l’Esterel
Road through the Esterel hills between Saint-Raphaël and Cannes. See French Riviera.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonjour Tristesse | Françoise Sagan | turning point | Where Anne’s car goes over the edge. |
Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan (1954)
Source: Bonjour Tristesse · Readwise highlight
‘She has had an accident,’ he said. ‘It happened on the Route de l’Esterel.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: After Anne drives off from the villa, a call at ten o’clock tells Raymond she has crashed on the Route de l’Esterel; the car fell fifty metres at the most dangerous spot, where there had been many accidents that summer. Cécile senses it may have been suicide; she and her father drive through the night to the clinic where Anne has died.
- Why it matters: The crash is the novel’s climax and the price of Cécile’s scheme; the ending’s sadness grows out of it.