Catherine juliette benzoni biography
- The first of a series of seven historical romance novels written by the best-selling author Juliette Benzoni between 1963 and 1978.
- Juliette Benzoni was a French author and international bestseller in several genres, including historical romance, historical fiction.
- Juliette was an incomparable Author and her historical Novels were absolutely accurate.
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Juliette Benzoni
French writer
Juliette Benzoni (born Andrée-Marguerite-Juliette Mangin; 30 October 1920 – 7 February 2016) was a French author and international bestseller in several genres, including historical romance, historical fiction, mystery and screenwriting. In 1998, at the age of 78, she received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National (National Order of Merit) from President Jacques Chirac.
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.[3]
Personal life
She was born Andrée-Marguerite-Juliette Mangin, the daughter of Marie-Susanne Arnold (of Alsace and Swiss origin) and Charles-Hubert Mangin. 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.[2]
Benzoni was educated at the Lycée Fénelon,
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Catherine
I think the book covers say it all about Catherine and the plot, but here we go anyway.
Another book I read as kid. Technically this is a bodice-ripper, but it predates and no doubt is just one series that inspired the much creepier, rapey late 70s and 80s bodice rippers. This was so much more fun.
Catherine is cursed with a body of sin, violet eyes and a mane of golden hair. Poor thing. She may be the mistress d’jour, but secretly she longs for a picket fence and a little castle with Arnaud the man that loves her and despises her. Not a biggie as she spends half her time in bed as the treasured mistress of the Duke, married to another man and lusted by the pageboys and swains of medieval Europe.
Misunderstandings abound, Joan of Arc makes a brief appearance and the reunited couple walk into the mists of time only to wake up in the next book torn asunder. Again. I haven’t read the rest of the series, but would guess it’s lather, rinse and repeat.
The best description I’ve read of these kind of epics comes
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Catherine (Benzoni novel)
Series of French historical romance novels by the author Juliette Benzoni
This article is about the Catherine novels. For the television series, see Catherine (1986 TV series). For other novels, see Catherine (disambiguation) § Literature.
Catherine: One Love is Enough, first published in France as Il suffit d'un amour[1] is the first of a series of seven historical romance novels written by the best-selling author Juliette Benzoni between 1963 and 1978.
It focuses on the fictitious heroine Catherine Legoix, daughter of a goldsmith in Paris at the time of the Hundred Years' War and her seemingly hopeless love for the arrogant Arnaud de Montsalvy, Lord of the Châtaignerie in Auvergne and a captain in the service of King Charles VII. From there starts a love story that will span through the events of that time. Her adventures take place in the Kingdom of France, which is torn apart by a civil war and is still suffering English occupation. The adventures fascinated millions of readers all over the world during the 1960s and 1970s.
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