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Denyse moved into the Simenon home in January 1946, and several weeks later told Régine that she was his new lover. Simenon fictionalised his affair with Denyse in his novels Trois chambres à Manhattan (Three Bedrooms in Manhattan) (1947) and Lettre à mon juge (Act of Passion) (1947).
In 1945, Simenon began a romantic relationship with a girl who was seventeen years younger than him, Denyse Ouimet. She was to be hired as a secretary but ended up marrying Simenon after he divorced his first wife in 1949 after a legal tussle. George and Denyse married in Nevada in 1950 and subsequently had three children together.
Oct 22, 2021 · New York Daily News article on Simenon’s second marriage, to Denyse Ouimet, in 1950. • La Mort de Belle (1952); first published in English as Belle (1954), translated by Louise Varèse. Belle is the first of three novels set in Connecticut, where Simenon settled after divorcing his first wife and marrying Denyse.
Apr 25, 1993 · He seems not quite human, or perhaps more than human, this man who before his death in 1989 had written nearly 400 novels, who had sales of 500 million copies in 55 languages, who after he had...
With this novel the emotional cost must have been heavy, as it mimics his impassioned affair with Denyse Ouimet, whom he met in Manhattan in 1945 and who, five years later, after he divorced the current Madame Simenon, would become his wife.
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Oct 3, 2011 · Eventually, Simenon discovered books: Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, the usual list for boys of his period. He also found another interest: girls. His description of his deflowering takes your...
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Jun 30, 2012 · His second wife, Denyse Ouimet, suggested that “he had contempt for women,” and his biographer Pierre Assouline concludes that Simenon “believed the only way to get to know a woman was to sleep with her.”
