She went for long walks with her dog in the Bois de Vincennes and could be seen to visit her favourite library Monaco in Saint-Mandé. She lived in a beautiful Second Empire mansion with her daughter Anne Gallois.

It was the only time the author suffered a Writers' block while working on the first adventures of Le boiteux de Varsovie. In January 1985 her son Jean-François Gallois died on a heart-attack just like his father Maurice Gallois. In 1982 fate blew her another stroke, her husband André Benzoni died, which made her the second time a widow. In 1953 she went to live in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Mandé, of which her husband would become later deputy mayor Yet times were hard and she had to look for work - and so her career as journalist and author was launched. Because of the unstable situation in Morocco at that time, her husband wished that she return to France. In Morocco she met her future husband a young French officer, Count André Benzoni di Conza born in Corsica, they married a few weeks before he was assigned to leave for Indochina to join his regiment. She went to Morocco to visit some relatives of her late husband and found work at a radio station.

During that time she studied the history of Burgundy and stumbled on the Order of the Golden Fleece which inspired her later for the seven Catherine Novels In 1950 her husband died of a heart attack, leaving her a widow at the age of 30 with two little children. She married in 1941 Maurice Gallois, a doctor and they moved to Dijon where she became the mother of two children. She studied philosophy, law and literature. Juliette Benzoni was educated at the Lycée Fenelon, College d'Hulst and the Institut Catholique Paris. Etant lui-même un mordu d'Alexandre Dumas et regrettant un peu je ne sois pas un garçon, il y avait là une sorte de mise en demeure…) ( C'est mon père qui, un beau jour, m'a mis dans les mains 'Les Trois Mousquetaires' en disant que cela devrait me plaire. Being himself a bit of Alexander Dumas and regretting a little that I was not a boy. It was my father who, one fine day, put the Three Musketeers into my hands, saying that it should please me. It was her father who persuaded her to read the books of Alexander Dumas as she told 2002 the Magazine Littéraire for the two hundred anniversary of that famous author. At the age of nine she discovered in a book Joan of Arc, at the stake and that was the moment her passion for history was awakened. She grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Paris.

She was the daughter of Marie-Susanne Arnold (with Alsace and Swiss Switzerland origin) and Charles-Hubert Mangin. Juliette Benzoni's maiden name was Andrée-Marguerite–Juliette Mangin.

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