5/8/2023 0 Comments Marianne juliette benzoniShe also wrote screenplays and short stories, and then began to produce a series of historical romance novels along the lines of the hugely successful Angélique series by Anne and Serge Golon. She began working as a journalist, writing for Histoire pour tous and Le Journal du dimanche. She returned to France and settled in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Mandé, where he would later become deputy mayor. She also met a young French officer, André Benzoni from Corsica, and they married in 1952, a few weeks before he was to leave for Indochina. She went to Morocco to visit her in-laws and found work writing for an advertising agency. In 1950, her husband died of a heart attack, leaving her a widow at the age of 30 with two young children to support. She married Maurice Gallois, a doctor, and they moved to Dijon and had two children. She was educated at the Lycée Fénelon, College d'Hulst and the Institut Catholique de Paris, where she studied philosophy, law and literature, until interrupted by World War II. She discovered her passion for history at the age of nine, while reading a book about Jeanne d'Arc, and her father encouraged her to read books by Alexander Dumas. Juliette Benzoni, née Andrée-Marguerite-Juliette Mangin, was born in Paris to an upper-middle-class family, the daughter of Charles-Hubert Mangin and his wife Marie-Susanne Arnold.
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