Biography

Juliette Benzoni was born on October 30, 1920 in Paris, France. She was a writer, known for Catherine (1969), Le gerfaut (1987) and Les amours romantiques (1983). She was married to André Benzoni and Maurice Gallois. She died on February 7, 2016 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France.

Juliette Benzoni wrote from 1962 - 2016 all together 86 books. Her last book Le Vol du Sancy - des Carats pour Ava? (An Aldo Morosini adventure) appeared two weeks before she died on 7 February 2016 at the age of 95 years.

The authors personal favorite was Prince Aldo Morosini from the Adventures of Aldo Morosini series. A fifteen book series which she started to write in 1994 - 2016. When asked in an interview 28 September 2010, whom she would like to meet for just one day. She said: Without doubts the * Marquise de Sommières, for the pleasure to live among people completely according to my heart. I would love to have Aldo Morosini as a nephew! Maybe also the cardinal of Richelieu: to see the effect of having the supreme power! But only for twenty four hours! -one of the characters in the Aldo Morosini adventures.

When Juliette Benzoni in 1968 saw the first time the movie version of Catherine (after her book series Catherine, il suffit d'un amour 1963) with Olga Georges-Picot in the leading role, she cried like a fountain. She had been shocked how the producer had changed her story. Instead of a knight from the middle ages, the hero Arnaud de Montsalvy was all of a sudden a revolting student in Paris. The end product had nothing to do anymore with the original story - and flopped at the cinema.