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I am
very happy to present you the first
« Catherine de Montsalvy Fansite
» in English. Even though
this is not
my native tongue, I chose to launch the site in English, believing to reach as many fans as
possible. The reason for
this Website is swiftly told, I adore Juliette Benzoni's first historical
books series Catherine. Written with so
much knowledge of precise historical facts.
Her credible style of narration, her fictive
characters seem to come alive during
reading! Who can ever forget the
touching moment when Arnaud de Montsalvy has
to go to the valley of Calves? Catherine's joy when
she became his wife in "Belle Catherine"? Her
unforgettable friends like Sara, Jean de
Xaintrailles, Gauthier
Stronghitarm,
Barnaby, Jacques Coeur or Queen Yolande of the four
Kingdoms?
The first five books were written, when the
word stress was not yet known as today.
At a time, when people still loved to read a
good romantic book, with a beautiful heroine,
a brave and handsome hero! There existed no
video-recorder, no cell phones,
no iTunes
and last but not least,
no Internet.
The
Catherine-Series are
translated into more than
25 languages and
they have over
thirty-five million readers!
From France to Iceland, Brasil, Israel, Poland,
Germany, Italy, Finland, Russia to list some.
I had read the first of the Catherine books:
Catherine, One Love is Enough" over 39 years
ago. I fell in love at first sight so to say, with
the heroine and her almost impossible dream, to be
Arnaud de Montsalvy's beloved wife. I waited like I
am sure, millions of readers, year after year for
the next book to be published! Desperately to know,
if there would be a happy end between Catherine and
her "deathly injured, arrogant, stubborn, proud
handsome lord Arnaud"! In 1979, finally the last of
the Catherine books "La Dame de Montsalvy"
was published. Unfortunately not all countries
seemed to think it was necessary to the faithful
readers of Juliette Benzoni, to translate the last
of the books. I know from the letters I receive,
there are thousands of readers who were made to
believe, the series ended with "A Snare for
Catherine"!!
I had not re-read the story of Catherine
for more than ten years. Some time ago, searching
for something, they caught my eyes,
out of
curiosity, to see if the magic still worked, I sat
down and started reading. Great was my joy and
pleasure, to find out that
the adventures of Catherine and Arnaud, were
still able to fascinate me,
like the
various times I had read
them before.
This is when the idea started in my mind, to
create a Fan site, dedicated to
my beloved
story, synchronous
having the opportunity to give a summary of the
seventh book "La Dame de Montsalvy" which has
so far never been translated into English and many
other languages.
Luckily my
sister LaLuna shares my passion for Catherine
.Together we have
spent months, working for the Catherine de
Montsalvy Fansite. LaLuna is
the one we can say thank you for most of the
creations on our site.
One important aspect I would like to mention! For
those of you, who have never read the Catherine books
, but were introduced to Catherine
through the TV-Serie Catherine, Il suffit d'un amour, I follow
mainly the seven books and not the TV-Serie! By no
means does this imply, that I do not love the
tv-production by
Marion Sarraut. I adore it more
than I like to admit!! The chosen actors have all my
admiration for their performances.
Claudine Ancelot as our heroine "Catherine
" is so adorable as is
Pierre-Marie Escourrou as her only reason to
breath "Arnaud de Montsalvy". For me, the books
come first and they have my
priority.
So do not be surprised if you hear me talk about "Gauthier
Stronghitarm" Loyse, sister of Catherine, or Landry
instead of Barnaby (who died in book one) Thank you
for your understanding, after all, books or
tv-serie, we all share the same passion.
For some it may be "kitsch" for fans like us
- a good opportunity to return to
Catherine and her long road to happiness. We
hope you enjoy it and are pleased to rediscover with me
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Switzerland , September
2008
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I would like to thank Frédérique on behalf of
all our French visitors, or whoever enjoys
to read my website in French. I cannot say enough how I appreciate her work.
And it
must not be forgotten that she herself has a big website on her own, about all
of
Juliette Benzoni's books. |
Merci JouJou
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If you have any comments,
questions or suggestions,this is the
webpage for you! Should you like to share any Catherine - related news or images,
long forgotten book covers -
don't hesitate to contact me at:
mistral@catherinedemontsalvy.ch
The website is best watched on Internet Explorer, to see all of the "extras"
like falling stars, description on certain pages or the different blends, when clicking on another page.
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