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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.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most popular authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
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 · Denyse Ouimet (Simenon, who changed all his women’s names, spelt it Denise) was a French Canadian he met during his American years. He fell helplessly in love with her in the space of an ...
Jun 30, 2012 · They were also largely impersonal next to works like Three Bedrooms in Manhattan, Act of Passion and Pedigree, books in which Simenon came as close as he was capable to baring his soul.IV. Simenon improbably claimed he was immune to the frenzy of passion prior to meeting Denyse Ouimet. They met in 1945, when he interviewed her for a job as his ...
Oct 3, 2011 · An earlier version of this article misspelled Denyse Ouimet’s name. Published in the print edition of the October 10, 2011 , issue. Joan Acocella was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1995 ...
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They are driven—from moment to moment, from bedroom to bedroom—to improvise the most unexpected of love stories, a tale of suspense where risk alone offers salvation. Georges Simenon was the most popular and prolific of the twentieth century's great novelists. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan—closely based on the story of his own meeting with ...
