In 1978 she received from the White House a letter by President ‘Ronald Reagan’ for the way she described in her Novel ‘The Lure of the Falcon’ the Independence War!įour of her Bestsellers the ‘Catherine, Marianne, Le Gerfaut and La Florentine’ series were filmed for French television, for which she wrote the Screenplay, together with Jean Chatenet. She was a huge fan of the books by Agatha Christie, Anne Perry and Ken Follet. Benzoni's Works includes: 3 Single Novels, 17 series, 18 self-contained short stories 55 million Readers and 300 million books sold Worldwide. The Catherine series was translated into 26 languages. The success was enormous and there followed in 1965, a Song called ‘Catherine, ma mie’ composed by Paul Amar, text by Juliette Benzoni. Her research for that soon-to-become Bestseller took up three years and in 1963, 'Catherine, Il suffit d’un amour’ was published. In the style of Anne Golon's ‘Angélique’.īenzoni affirmed, remembering her fascination for the ‘Order of the Golden Fleece’. In 1959, Gérald Gauthier, director of the Press Agency at Opéra Mundi, watched her in a popular television Quiz show and impressed by her historical knowledge about the Italian Renaissance asked her if she were able to write a historical romance series They married in 1953, but because of the unstable political situation, she returned to Paris, while her husband was to join the 6th Regiment of Moroccan Spahis in Hué.īack in Paris, she launched into journalism and worked for various Newspapers, Magazines and wrote for ‘Confidences’ historical articles and interviewed celebrities such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Erich von Stroheim and Maurice Chevalier. In 1950, her husband died and she went to Morocco, visiting relatives of her late husband and joined the editorial staff at a radio station and met her future husband, Colonel Count André Benzoni di Conza. During that period, she studied at the libraries of Dijon the History of the Dukes of Burgundy, where she stumbled on the Legend of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which would later inspire her for her Catherine series. In 1941, she married a doctor from Dijon, and was soon mother of two children.

At the age of fifteen, her parents moved to Saint-Mandé where she lived until her death.

Benzoni studied at the Institut Catholique de Paris’, philosophy, law and literature. At the age of nine, she discovered her passion for history while looking at a photo of ‘Joan of Arc’. Named by the Media as the « Queen of History Novels » and « Daughter of Alexander Dumas».īorn 1920 in Paris and growing up in an upper-middle-class family. Juliette Benzoni, (Andrée-Marguerite-Juliette) was a French author and international bestseller in several genres, including historical romance, historical fiction, mystery and screenwriting.

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