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,

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s, 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

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, to Edmond Jean Frédéric Marie Delpech, a lawyer, and Françoise Marie Reine Suzanne Estier, his wife.Acte de naissance no. 10, 2 August 1905, Évecquemont, Archives des Yvelines (in French) 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

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, sometimes using the

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, "Jean de Lutry". She collaborated for many years with the literary and artistic journal, ''

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'', 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

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, ''Les Lévriers du seraglio'' by Mary Stewart, and the biographical account of

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entitled, ''Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique''. In addition to using various masculine

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s, 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 Tessier11, 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

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. 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

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Awards

* 1958, Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou, from the

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, 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

* ''Les Lévriers du seraglio'', by Mary Stewart * ''Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique'',biographical account of

References

External links

Jeanine Delpech's interview
with

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, first published in ''Les Nouvelles litteraires'', 15 November, 1945, included in Camus' ''Lyrical and Critical Essays''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Delpech, Jeanine 1905 births 1992 deaths People from Yvelines 20th-century French novelists French romantic fiction writers Crime novelists French historical novelists 20th-century French historians 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers