Fils de laurore juliette benzoni biography

Known as the "Queen of History Novels" [ 1 ] and "Daughter of Alexander Dumas", [ 2 ] she wrote 86 books, which were translated into at least 22 languages. She grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Paris. At the age of nine she discovered her passion for history through reading a book about Joan of Arc , [ 4 ] and her father encouraged her to read the books of Alexander Dumas by giving her a copy of The Three Musketeers.

She married a doctor, Maurice Gallois in , and they moved to Dijon where she became the mother of two children. While studying the history of Burgundy she discovered the Order of the Golden Fleece , which was later to inspire the seven Catherine novels.

Juliette Benzoni was a French author and international bestseller in several genres, including historical romance, historical fiction.

In her husband died of a heart attack, leaving her a widow at the age of 30 with two young children. She went to Morocco to visit her late husband's parents and found work at a radio station writing advertisements. It was the only time the author suffered from writer's block , while working on the first adventures of Le boiteux de Varsovie.

Her house was full of books from the cellar up to the first floor — not only literary encyclopaedias, history books, and travel guides but also collections of works by Agatha Christie , Anne Perry and Ken Follett. Returning to Paris from Morocco in , Benzoni started to work as a journalist, writing historical articles at the Journal du Dimanche and Histoire pour tous.

She also began writing narrative adaptations and scenarios for comic strips that ran in some of the daily newspapers in Paris under the aegis of Opera Mundi. Claudette [ 8 ] and Dr. Fu Manchu. In she participated in the popular television quiz show [ 10 ] Le Gros Lot. The topic was the Italian Renaissance, and the subject was Catherina Sforza.

Benzoni agreed, already having an idea inspired by the legend of the Golden Fleece, and began to write the adventures of a golden-haired beauty during the Hundred Years' War. Catherine was released in as a cliffhanger in the daily newspaper France-Soir as Il suffit d'un amour One Love is Enough.