Between Serge's death and 1985, Anne wrote four more volumes, beginning with the second half of Ghosts (both portions published in French as a single volume, Angelique in Quebec) and proceeding through Angélique's Victory.Īnne Golon was reduced to a state close to poverty and filed a lawsuit against the French publisher Hachette for abuse of copyright and for her unpaid royalties. That year, as Anne wrote Angélique and the Ghosts, Serge died.Īnne carried on writing and brought up her four children at the same time. In 1972, Anne and Serge Golon went to Canada to continue their research. The actress Michèle Mercier played Angelique, and Robert Hossein played her husband, Joffrey de Peyrac. The popularity of the books led to two films made in 1964 by Bernard Borderie. The two names were merged into Sergeanne Golon by the British publishers when the books were translated. When originally published in France, the books were credited to Serge and Anne Golon, Anne being the author and husband Serge having done much of the historical research. They collaborated on Angélique, Marquise of the Angels (1956), the first book in the series. She was sent to Africa as a journalist, where she met Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, her future husband, Serge Golon. She wrote using different pen-names, helped to create France Magazine, and was awarded a literary prize for The Patrol of the Saint Innocents. During World War II she travelled via bicycle through France to Spain. She was interested in painting and writing from early childhood and published her first novel, The Country from behind my Eyes, when she was 18 under the pen name Joëlle Danterne. Biographyīorn Simone Changeux in Toulon, a port in south-eastern France, was the daughter of Pierre Changeux, a scientist and a captain in the French Navy. She was most known for a series of novels about a heroine called Angelique. Anne Golon (17 December 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon.

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