| Jeanine Delpech | |
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| Born | Jeanine Louise Nelly Delpech 1 August 1905 |
| Died | 3 July 1992 |
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| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Paris (1935) |
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| Notable works | L’Âme de la Fronde : Madame de Longueville |
| Notable awards | Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou |
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| Children | 2 |
Jeanine Delpech (born Jeanine Louise Nelly Delpech; 1 August 1905 – 3 July 1992) was a French journalist and translator from English, as well as an author of romance novels, detective novels, sentimental novels, and historical works. Her works appeared under various names including Jean de Lutry, Robert Beauchamp, Jeanine Goldet, Jeanine Antoine-Goldet, Louise Nelly Delpech-Teissier and Madame Robert Teissier. Delpech died in 1992.
Early life and education
Jeanine Louise Nelly Delpech was born in 1905 at the Château du Prieuré in Évecquemont, to Edmond Jean Frédéric Marie Delpech, a lawyer, and Françoise Marie Reine Suzanne Estier, his wife.
In 1935, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from the Faculty of Paris.
Career
She began her literary career by publishing numerous historical works, including several on criminal cases or famous criminals. She also provided a few romance novels to various publishers, including Groupe Flammarion, sometimes using the pseudonym, "Jean de Lutry". She collaborated for many years with the literary and artistic journal, Les Nouvelles littéraires, as well as with other cultural publications. Under the pseudonym of "Robert Beauchamp", she published half a dozen detective novels in the 1960s by the Presses de la Cité and, in the 1970s, in the Le Masque collection. As a translator, she was the author of the French language texts of the novel, Eh bien, ma jolie, by James Hadley Chase, Les Lévriers du seraglio by Mary Stewart, and the biographical account of Ernest Hemingway entitled, Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique. In addition to using various masculine pen names, including "Jean de Lutry" and "Robert Beauchamp" After her marriage to Antoine Goldet, she signed some of her texts "Jeanine Goldet" or "Jeanine Antoine-Goldet". Having married Robert Tessier, she signed her works, "Louise Nelly Delpech-Teissie" or "Madame Robert Teissier".
Personal life
In 1925, she became engaged to Antoine Goldet, then a student at the École Normale Supérieure. Their daughter, Nicole, was born the following year, and their son, François, in 1929. After a divorce, Jeanine remarried in 1937 with Robert Tessier.
She died 3 July 1992, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
Awards
- 1958, Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou, from the Académie Française, for L’Âme de la Fronde : Madame de Longueville (1957)
Selected works
Novels
Romance novels
- Les Noces de minuit, 1955
- Le Serpent d’émeraude, 1957
Romance novels by Jean de Lutry
- Cendrillon à Hollywood, 1951
- Les Fiancés de Venise, 1957
- La Violette et l’Orchidée, 1958
Detective novels by Robert Beauchamp
- Flagrant Délire, 1961
- Les Nymphes d’Auteuil, 1962
- Six x = zéro, 1971
- L’Héritière malgré elle, 1971
- Des nuits trop blanches, 1973
Historical novels
- Isaline, 1971
Other novels
- Les Liens de fumée, 1947
- Une nuit pour le diable, 1960
Historical works
- La Double Mary, reine des voleurs au temps de Shakespeare, 1943
- Louise de Kéroualle, 1949
- L’Âme de la Fronde : Madame de Longueville, 1957
- L’Amour le plus tendre : Le Chevalier de Boufflers et Mme de Sabran, 1964
- La Passion de la Marquise de Sade, 1970
- Gentleman jusqu’au crime, 1972
- La Demoiselle à l’arsenic, 1973
Translations from English to French
- Eh bien, ma jolie, by James Hadley Chase
- Les Lévriers du seraglio, by Mary Stewart
- Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique,biographical account of Ernest Hemingway
References
- Acte de naissance no. 10, 2 August 1905, Évecquemont, Archives des Yvelines (in French)
- "Demande d'adhésion de Jeanine Delpech en qualité d'autrice cinéaste". musee.sacem.fr (in French). 1935. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- "William B. Seabrook (trad. Jeanine Goldet), "La Sorcière"". Gringoire. 29 January 1932. Retrieved 18 January 2022 – via Gallica.
- Antoine-Goldet, Jeanine. Bibliographie de la France. 1987. p. 3. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- "Jeanine Delpech". data.bnf.fr (in French). BnF Data. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- Delpech, Jeanine (in French). BnF Catalogue general. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Jean de Lutry. BnF Catalogue general. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Robert Beauchamp. BnF Catalogue general. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Baudou, Jacques; Schleret, Jean-Jacques (1984). Le vrai visage du Masque: roman policier, espionnage, aventure, western (in French). Futuropolis. p. 53. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- "Fiançailles". Comoedia. 21 June 1925. Retrieved 18 January 2022 – via Gallica.
- "Naissances". Le Matin. 26 March 1929. Retrieved 18 January 2022 – via Gallica.
- "Mariages". Le Temps (in French). 28 December 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 18 January 2022 – via RetroNews.
- "Fichier des décès de l'Insee". arbre.app (in French). Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- "Prix Alice-Louis Barthou". academie-francaise.fr (in French). Académie française.
External links
- Jeanine Delpech's interview with Albert Camus, first published in Les Nouvelles litteraires, 15 November, 1945, included in Camus' Lyrical and Critical Essays.