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1983

Juliette Benzoni's own article on " Dans le lit des rois" kindly lend to
Frédérique, on one of our visits to our favorite author. A small anecdote, told by Juliette herself: on the day of this interview, the journalist wanted to picture her in her bed to illustrate his article !

February 1982

In "Confidences" February 1982, we find another article written by Juliette Benzoni. Here the superb mistress of history, talks about the "The Wedding of Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg in 1982. Why did I choose that article? I confess, out of sentimental reasons. The grandmother of Princess Marie-Astrid, was Queen Astrid of Belgium who died at a tragic car accident (1936), in Switzerland. As a child, whenever we passed with the car on Küssnacht am Rigi,"Lake Vierwaldstättersee" (at that time, a narrow winding road!) my heart went out to that beautiful young Queen, who died so tragically.

1978

Love and History
A wonderful article found by my friend and partner Frédérique. We agreed, this is one of the most personal and best interviews we ever read so far! We learn so much about the way Juliette Benzoni is going about on writing a new book! For those of you, who enjoy reading the article also in English (I know personaly that there are many French visitors who love doing that!☺my friend and I have translated the splendid article by Cécile Barthélémy. I confirm it was not easy, but we have so much enjoyed this, thinking of the millions of readers of Juliette, who do not speak or understand French! This is also the moment to repeat, that we are no English teachers or have a diploma! We do this out of passion for the cause - for Juliette Benzoni and her fans...

Alexandre Dumas Prix" in 1974

Juliette Benzoni has yet again opened one of her numerous albums.to Fréderique and Mistral. Thanks to her generosity, I can present some newspaper article's, showing Juliette Benzoni, founder of the "Alexandre Dumas Prix" in 1974. She is also the president of that foundation. Juliette Benzoni was supported by the much acclaimed French historian Alain Decaux.One of the celebrities to win this Trophy, (a sword for each winner) was amongst others: Jean Marais, François Chaumette, Philippe Clay and Michel Creton.

Der Spiegel 1963

While searching for "never seen book covers of Catherine" on Google, I stumbled on this "Der Spiegel" edition of 1963, who brought a long article about "Anne Golon and her success with "Angelique". But I, on the other hand, was more interested about the last paragraph, which introduced a certain French newcomer called "Juliette Benzoni" and her book "Eine Liebe ist genug (One love is enough) I have taken the liberty, to make my own article with that short notice - because it shows us that BLANVALET knew at first sight, the worth of the work of Juliette Benzoni... nota bene it must also be mentioned, that the German magazine "Der Spiegel" has always been a renowned Journal. As I have already mentioned on the "Book series pages" the German publisher designed very beautiful early "Catherine books" which I have the the great pleasure to own myself...

the sample which was offered to the German readers.

By the way... I must admit that I am surprised that "Lothar Blanvalet" mentions the wedding night! Since we all know that Catherine and Arnaud only married in BELLE CATHERINE! I suppose he meant the odd wedding night between Catherine and her first husband, Garin de Brazey! A strange choice - or did the good man not read the book ☺ ??? That would also explain why in the German first edition of "Catherine" which was called simply "Catherine" (and not how he announced in the Spiegel article "Eine Liebe ist genug) the French first two books, were joined in one edition and "culpably" abridged!!! And when I say abridged I really mean it! Simply an impertinence towards the readers...