Jeanine Delpech

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.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.{{cite web |title=Demande d'adhésion de Jeanine Delpech en qualité d'autrice cinéaste |url=https://musee.sacem.fr/index.php/Detail/objects/11537 |website=musee.sacem.fr |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=fr |date=1935}}

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"{{cite news |title=William B. Seabrook (trad. Jeanine Goldet), "La Sorcière" |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4747004d |access-date=18 January 2022 |work=Gringoire |via=Gallica |date=29 January 1932 |language=EN}} or "Jeanine Antoine-Goldet".{{cite book |title=Antoine-Goldet, Jeanine |date=1987 |publisher=Bibliographie de la France |page=3 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61274899/f5.image.r=goldet |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=EN}} Having married Robert Tessier,{{cite web |title=Jeanine Delpech |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11899428/jeanine_delpech/ |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=BnF Data |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=fr}} she signed her works, "Louise Nelly Delpech-Teissie" or "Madame Robert Teissier".{{cite book |title=Delpech, Jeanine |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb118994286 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=BnF Catalogue general |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=fr}}{{cite book |title=Jean de Lutry |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11347568b |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=BnF Catalogue general |access-date=18 January 2022}}{{cite book |title=Robert Beauchamp |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121070369 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=BnF Catalogue general |access-date=18 January 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Baudou |first1=Jacques |last2=Schleret |first2=Jean-Jacques |title=Le vrai visage du Masque: roman policier, espionnage, aventure, western |date=1984 |publisher=Futuropolis |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WdxHs4VkJjoC&q=Le+Vrai+Visage+du+Masque |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=fr}}

In 1925, she became engaged to Antoine Goldet, then a student at the École Normale Supérieure. Their daughter, Nicole, was born the following year,{{cite news |title=Fiançailles |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76528686/f1.image |access-date=18 January 2022 |work=Comoedia |via=Gallica |date=21 June 1925 |language=EN}} and their son, François, in 1929.{{cite news |title=Naissances |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k576474h |access-date=18 January 2022 |work=Le Matin |via=Gallica |date=26 March 1929 |language=EN}} After a divorce, Jeanine remarried in 1937 with Robert Tessier.{{cite news |title=Mariages |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/le-temps/28-decembre-1937/123/1715331/4 |access-date=18 January 2022 |work=Le Temps |via=RetroNews |date=28 December 1937 |page=4 |language=fr}}

She died 3 July 1992, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.{{cite web |title=Fichier des décès de l'Insee |url=https://arbre.app/insee |website=arbre.app |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=fr}}

• 1958, Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou, from the Académie Française, for L’Âme de la Fronde : Madame de Longueville (1957){{cite web |title=Prix Alice-Louis Barthou |publisher=Académie française |url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/prix-alice-louis-barthou |website=academie-francaise.fr |language=fr}}

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• Les Noces de minuit, 1955
• Le Serpent d’émeraude, 1957

• Cendrillon à Hollywood, 1951
• Les Fiancés de Venise, 1957
• La Violette et l’Orchidée, 1958

• Flagrant Délire, 1961
• Les Nymphes d’Auteuil, 1962
• Six x = zéro, 1971
• L’Héritière malgré elle, 1971
• Des nuits trop blanches, 1973

• Isaline, 1971

• Les Liens de fumée, 1947
• Une nuit pour le diable, 1960

• 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

• 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

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• [https://books.google.com/books?id=DSuwWW-gSa8C Jeanine Delpech's interview] with Albert Camus, first published in Les Nouvelles litteraires, 15 November, 1945, included in Camus' Lyrical and Critical Essays.

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