Serge Golon (born Vsevolod Sergeevich Golubinov, russian: Всеволод Серге́евич Голубинов; 23 August 1903 – 12 July 1972) was a French

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and artist of Russian descent. He is known as the husband of French author

Anne Golon Anne Golon (17 December 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. Her ''Angélique'' novels have reportedly sold 150 million copies worldwide and have inspired multiple adaptations. ...

, author the Angélique series.

Biography

Golon was a Russian aristocrat, born in

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; his father was the

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's consul in

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.ГОЛУБИНОВ Всеволод Сергеевич
// Российское зарубежье во Франции. 1919—2000: биографический словарь. Т.1 А-К под ред. Л. А. Мнухина. М. Наука; Дом-музей Марины Цветаевой, 2008, стр. 389 In 1920, he emigrated from

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to France. He graduated from the (ENSIC), an engineering school dedicated to chemical engineering in

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. In the 1940s, he worked in the

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, Africa, led the cement and tanneries, and worked on the gold mine. He met Simone Changeux (known as Anne) there and returned to France with her. They had four children together, one of whom is the biochemist and author Pierre Goloubinoff. In 1954, he and his wife released a memoir about their stay in Africa titled . They also collaborated on the popular ''Angélique'' novel series set in the 17th century, with Golon providing historical research. In 1961, he began painting. In 1968, he held his first solo

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, Switzerland. In 1972, Golon and his wife travelled to

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, Canada, to research their latest ''Angélique'' novel. He passed away from a

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there.

References

1903 births 1972 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France French male writers People from Bukhara Russian nobility White Russian emigrants to France 20th-century French male writers {{France-writer-stub