Catherine website since
September 2008
The
second
Catherine Novel was first published in
France by
Editions de Trévise
1964 - see my 'International
Cover page' for all the different French
covers →
here
The
English translation for
Catherine by Jocasta Goodwin
was published in
Great Britain 1965 by
William Heineman Ltd.
The
Dust jacket was created by Jon DAVIS, of which the
journalist 'Oliver Warner' of the magazine
TATLER had made a disparaging remark about the dress
the very popular heroine was wearing. If he had
written that the artist had no idea about tooting
and blowing because the story takes place in the
Middle Ages, I would have understood.
I absolutely did not
appreciate what he said about the book and I bet a
box of our best Swiss chocolate that the
arrogant journalist had not even read the book !
... and yes Mr. Warner, the book did sell well, so well
that they are still re-issued and read in 2021
everywhere in the whole wide world!
The
USA
paperback
on the left above was painted by
American Illustrator
Elaine Gignilliat
and the one on the right by
Milton Charles.We
find that information either on the cover or inside
the paperbacks...unfortunately Publishers at that
time, did not find it always necessary to let their
readers know who the Artist was. That's a shame in
retrospect, because some of the artists became
really famous, like Alan Lee (Lord of the
Rings !) who created one of the
Marianne covers.
The above cover
shows us Telos publishing's cover for the second
Novel CATHERINE. The Illustration was done by
Artist Martin Baines. The Catherine
series have been re-issued in England
by Telos Publishing Ltd. since 2015!
For
all facts see
→
INFO PAGE and
at Telos Publishing
Ltd. official website
→
here and important fact, the books are not abridged this time !
The
re-issued Catherine series in English are
dedicated to 'Linda Compagnoni Walther', webmaster of
this website, which had been the wish of the late
Juliette
Benzoni
in 2014.
Souvenir
photo with the author Juliette Benzoni on 31 October
2009 during my first visit at Saint-Mandé.
The
Book of the Week - Il suffit d'un amour II (Catherine)
Excellent article on 10 July 1964by the late
Henri de Montfort Journalist, historian, author,
French Resistance worker and co-founder of ICI
PARIS. I have translated the first section from'
Monsieur de Montfort's' article about Juliette Benzoni's
« Catherine, Il suffit d'un amour 2 »
« This is a very enthralling Novel of
which one can say that it deserves well the term
"Romanesque" which is the best guarantee to keep a
reader spellbound with pleasure and
emotion during reading. Worth mentioning are the excellent
treasury of words and of style »
Henri de MONTFORT
The Catherine
series and
the PRESS
→
rare material from 1959 - 2021 never seen articles
and photos
→
here
The
Catherine series have so far been translated into more than twenty-six languages
- see the international
Book covers page (31 countries !) →
here
The →
Ballad of Catherine 1965
-
Composer: Paul AMAR, text: Juliette Benzoni - Singer:
Bernard Stéphane
and Michèle Arnaud.
Film
adaption in 1968
Catherine, Il suffit d'un amour
Director
'Bernard Borderie',
the same man who had already directed the
Angélique films (after the books by Anne Golon).
Juliette was extremely disappointed by the end
product, because they had turned her story into a
Political unrest, inspired by the '1968 Paris
riots'! The original story was no longer recognisable!
I can only agree with her. I have decided to create
an extra page with photos and it is under
construction The movie had after all some
international Stars which deserve to be mentioned -
like Olga Georges-Picot, Claude Brasseur, Horst
Frank and Francine Bergé.
Music by Michel Magne - who already composed the
Film music for the
Angélique films.
Television-Series in 1986
Catherine,
Il suffit d'un amour
Co-Production Antenne 2 - SFP
Director
Marion Sarraut
Adaption by
Juliette Benzoni & Jean Chatenet
Music by
Robert Viger
Marion
Saraut's
TV-Series Catherine, il suffit d'un amour
premiered in 1986
Story of Catherine
- as seen from the 1986
TV-Series Catherine, il suffit d'un amour
Portrait
of Director
Marion Sarraut →
here
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Synopsis : Catherine |
Catherine Legoix, daughter of a Parisian
goldsmith in the time
of the hundred Years War,is the victim of a
hopeless passion
for Arnaud de Montsalvy, prominent member of the
Armagnac
aristoracy, although she herself a favourite of the the
Duke of Burgundy, Philippe le Bon. He has arranged her marriage
to his
wealthy Treasurer, Garin de Brazey, and every
force in the
troubled times in which they live: hatred, war,
vengeance;
drives Catherine and Philippe together, keeps
her and Arnaud
apart.
But Catherine defies the gulf which seperates
Armagnac and
Burgundian and, driven by the blind love, she
travels the roads
of France and Burgundy: from Dijon to Bruges,
then to the
beleaqured city of Orléans, where Arnaud de
Montsalvy is
among the defending corps. There her path
crosses that of
the Maid herself, Joan of Arc; and later she
encounters an
enemy from her childhood, the so-called "Butcher
of Rouen"... Bishop Pierre Cauchon
alias Bishop of Beavais.
' There is more sense in the flight of a blind
bird than in a woman's hear.' Catherine's friend
and adviser, the Moorish physician Abou-al-Khayr,
once said to her. Through fire and water,
hardship and every brutality of a country
ravaged by war, Catherine pursues her destined
course. |
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