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With this "special" page I like to honour, all these
wonderful people who have in some way brought
entertainment, enjoyment, happiness, amazement and
adorable moments to the Catherine de Montsalvy
website. Our ingenious
Marion Sarraut, spontaneously
leaving a message in my
guest book. Her
warm-hearted act , had "knighted" in a way,
right from the beginning of the launching of the
website!
Philippe Caroit answering with a quick mail, writing
that he will with the next click go and see the
site! Sending me later in the year, a handwritten
message for all "Catherine fans"! My lovely email
exchange with Isabelle Guiard.
The
great moment, I saw Gérard Chambre's name in my mailbox - doing me the
great honour to answer my very first interview! His adorable
Christmas wishes to me and all the
friends of Catherine! The lovely
Corinne Touzet,
whom I had the delight, to meet in
May, while she was on
stage in Paris. I am still overwhelmed by the warm and
honest interview she willingly sent. Laurent le Doyen, the
leading actor of Juliette Benzoni's other
best-seller Le Gerfaut - who with his charming
French charm, can now count the passionate
"Catherine fan Mistral", also to his
fans! Pierre
Deny who gave us likewise such a great interview.
Finding the time to enrich this website, with a
beautiful handwritten message to me... and I will
not tell how many girls wrote to me, wanting to be a
"Bond" girl, if he played "James Bond
☺ !!
Our hero Pierre-Marie Escourrou
alias Arnaud de Montsalvy -
calling me on my
cell phone! I swear he was surely greatly amused how I
tried to stay calm! Thank you again Pierre-Marie,
for sending your answers for the interview, exactly
on the day my website celebrated its first birthday
on 10.9.2009 !
And I keep my promise about learning French!
My dear friends, Aleksandra,
Katarzyna, Jean Brittain, Catherine and Hélène, who
have one way or the other, supported this website. I
have given a link to the
AWARD page, on each their
names. I love them all, just like my other visitors,
who come everyday and send me such
enjoyable emails.
I cannot add everyone into the
HALL OF FAME - just
like the Oscar or César is only given once in
a year ;-) but I must not forget to put the name of
Kristina of Slovakia and that of Diana of Bulgaria
here.! Will you believe that those girls, went in
search of missing "Catherine covers" scanned them
for my website and sent them by mail? Nothing out of
the ordinary? Like carrying seven books home from a
library - travelling miles and miles to the sea in
Bulgaria, to mobilize their friends in search of the
famous seventh book:" La Dame de Montsalvy"?
Just like Kate from Israel and Birgitte from
Denmark. With
the goal in mind, to help complete the series of the
"International book covers"!
Frédérique my
dear friend from France. When she was chosen to be 'Winner of the Catherine de Montsalvy' Award, who
might have thought, what a journey we would go together!
"Les filles des grands chemins" Juliette
had lovingly
started to call us; on the basis of the
fourth Catherine book "Catherine des grands chemins".
In our cases the many times we travelled to see
her at Saint-Mandé as her guests.
And last but not least my very
dear Juliette Benzoni. The reason this website
exists. Without her there would be no "Catherine de Montsalvy
website - no Catherine or Arnaud, our
beloved heroes or all the other adorable characters
from "Catherine, Il suffit d'un amour"; Juliette's
worldwide bestseller! I am deeply touched by the
friendship she offers me. I never tire talking about Juliette Benzoni. She is an extraordinary woman, who
opened her arms so warmly to me and my soul mate
Frédérique, on our very first visit to her home in
Saint-Mandé. Borrowing one of her chapter’s names
from her latest best-seller “La Dague au Lys Rouge”,
it was "Love at first sight" between us! Dearest
Juliette, thank you again for all the beautiful
moments you have given us with all your books. You
are our Queen and I am so proud and feel deeply
touched, that you call me your friend!
Dear Juliette, Marion Sarraut, Isabelle Guiard,
Corinne Touzet, Gérard Chambre, Pierre-Marie
Escourrou ,Pierre Deny, Philippe Caroit, Laurent
le Doyen, Frédérique, Catherine, Katarzyna,
Alexandra, Jean and all future members .
It is not the HALL of FAME in Ohio USA - no press or
journalist will come and take some interviews - it
is only Mistral's
way, to say thank you, to Juliette for writing such
an unforgettable book like
«Catherine»,
to the directing of the TV-series Catherine by the
ingenious Marion, to the superb and stupendous
performances by our beloved stars of the TV- series.
To all my friends I met on the net and who share my
own passion of
«CATHERINE».
With your generosity and contribution, you give
existence to my website, bringing a bit of
glamour! Something I would never have believed
possible two years ago.! The numbers of
visitors everyday show me there is still enough room
in this world to go and DREAM a little bit and to
reminisce
in the good old times. Linda, webmaster 2010
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