Juliette Benzoni
Juliette Benzoni (30 October 1920 – 7 February 2016) was a French novelist. She is best known for her novels with historical and love themes and for her Catherine (book series) of novels which was made into a television series in 1986.[1][2]
She grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Paris. Her father was an industrialist. She married young to a doctor from Dijon and had two children by him before he died of a heart attack, leaving her a widow at 30. She went to Morocco and met and married a young French officer born in Corsica. When he went to Indochina, she found herself back in Paris. There, she plunged into journalism, including historical articles. She was asked by Gérald Gauthier, the editor of Opera Mundi, to write a historical novel. The resulting Catherine novel, Il suffit d'un amour, was a huge world-wide success and launched her career as a novelist. She lived in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Mandé, of which her husband is the deputy mayor. She travelled widely, and enjoyed gardening and cooking.[3]
Selected works
- Catherine series: Il suffit d'un amour - Tome 1; Il suffit d'un amour - Vol. 2; Belle Catherine; Catherine des grands chemins; Catherine et le Temps d'aimer; La Dame de Montsalvy
- Le Boiteux de Varsovie (10 tomes : Les Émeraudes du Prophète, La Perle de l'Empereur, Les Joyaux de la sorcière, Les Larmes de Marie-Antoinette, Le Collier sacré de Montezuma, L'Anneau d'Atlantide, La Chimère d'or des Borgia, La Collection Kledermann, Le Talisman du Téméraire : Les Trois Frères, Le Talisman du Téméraire : Le Diamant de Bourgogne, Le Vol du Sancy).
- La Chambre du Roi (novel)
- Les Chevaliers
- Les Dames du Méditerranée-Express
- L'Exilé (1994 novel)
- Félicia au soleil couchant
- La Fière Américaine
- Fiora et le Magnifique
- Fiora et le Téméraire
- Fiora et le Pape
- Fiora et le Roi de France
- La Florentine
- Le Gerfaut
- Le Gerfaut des brumes
- Haute-Savane
- Hortense au point du jour
- L'Intrus (1993 novel)
- Jason des quatre mers
- Jean de la nuit
- La Jeune Mariée
- Les Lauriers de flammes – Tome 1
- Les Lauriers de flammes – Tome 2
- Les Loups de Lauzargues
- Marianne (book series)
- Marianne et l'Inconnu de Toscane
- Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon
- Olivier ou les Trésors templiers
- On a tué la Reine !
- Piège pour Catherine
- La Princesse mandchoue
- Le Réfugié (1993 novel)
- Les Reines du faubourg
- Renaud ou la Malédiction
- Suite italienne (novel)
- Le Temps des poisons
- Thibaut ou la Croix perdue
- Toi, Marianne
- Les Treize Vents
- Le Trésor (1980 novel)
- Un collier pour le diable
- Le Voyageur (novel)
References
- ↑ "Catherine de Montsalvy...le site officiel". catherinedemontsalvy.ch.
- ↑ "Mort de Juliette Benzoni, reine du roman historique". Le Figaro.
- ↑ "Juliette Benzoni par Juliette Benzoni" printed in Catherine; 2 Belle Catherine" ISBN 978-2-266-25793-0