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, sentimental novels, 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 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.
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 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" or "Jeanine Antoine-Goldet". Having married Robert Tessier, 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 École Normale Supérieure. 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 7th arrondissement of Paris.
Awards 1958, Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou, from the Académie Française, 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 James Hadley Chase Les Lévriers du seraglio, by Mary Stewart Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique, biographical account of Ernest Hemingway
References
External links Jeanine Delpech's interview with Albert Camus, first published in Les Nouvelles litteraires, 15 November 1945, included in Camus' Lyrical and Critical Essays.