The works of Julietta Benzoni, always attracting readers with a unique combination of romanticism and the reality of historical facts, have now been translated into many languages and published in millions of copies in more than 20 countries around the world.
Childhood and family
The future famous writer was born in the seventh arrondissement of Paris Palais Bourbon on October 30, 1920. Her parents, an industrialist from Lorraine, Charles-Hubert Manzhen and a native of Champagne, Maria-Suzanne Arnaud, gave her the name Andre-Margarita-Juliette Mangen. The place where Juliet spent her childhood was the house located in the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, one of the oldest districts of Paris. In the same house, great figures of French culture, art and science had previously spent part of their lives: writer Prosper Merimet, artist Jean-Baptiste Corot, physicist and natural scientist Andre-Marie Ampère.
Perhaps due to this, from childhood, Juliette showed a craving for literature. At first it was the novels of Alexander Dumas the father, and later the works of Victor Hugo, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt and Agatha Christie. Juliette’s training, which began with Mademoiselle Desir in the so-called “fashion courses, ” was interrupted after a while, since the leadership of the prim school did not appreciate the enthusiasm of such a young girl in the novel Notre Dame de Paris. Parents had to send Juliette to a free lyceum, from where a year later she was transferred to the aristocratic elite college Paul Claudel Hulst.
After graduating from college and receiving a bachelor's degree, Juliet entered the Paris Catholic Institute. About a year later, when the war began, training had to be stopped. After some time, Juliet's father suddenly died of a heart attack. Having suffered the loss, she entered the service of the prefecture, having received the opportunity she needed to use the richest library hidden within the walls of this institution.
Marriage and the beginning of the creative path
Juliette's first marriage took place at the end of 1941 at the age of 21. Her husband is Dr. Maurice Galois, a native of Dijon. Immediately after the wedding, the newlyweds move to Maurice's homeland, where two children are born in the family. Maurice spends most of his time helping patients and secretly participating in the French resistance.
All this time, Juliette completely devotes to children, as well as reading books about the history of medieval France. In 1950, after her husband’s sudden death from an attack of angina pectoris, Juliette and her children moved to the then French colony of Morocco. There, on the recommendation of her friends, she gets a job at the local radio station, and three years later she remarries a brave officer, Corsican Count Andre Benzoni da Costa. After a while, Andre leaves military service and the family returns to France.
There, Juliette and Andre settle in the suburbs of Paris Saint-Manda in a mansion from the time of Napoleon III. Andre soon went into politics, receiving the position of Assistant Mayor of Saint-Mande. In this position, he worked until his death in 1982. Juliette, returning to France, the first three actively engaged in journalism, having written many articles and essays on the history of France. And already in 1964 her first novel "Love. Only Love" was published, which immediately became a bestseller in France.
