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In November, Simenon met Denyse Ouimet, a 25-year-old French-Canadian, with whom he started an affair and hired as his secretary. Denyse moved into the Simenon home in January 1946, [56] and several weeks later told Régine that she was his new lover. [57]
- Collège Saint-Louis, Liège
- Novelist
- Belgian
- 1919–1981
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 ...
Oct 3, 2011 · In 1945, in New York, he hired a beautiful, nervous French-Canadian woman, Denyse Ouimet, seventeen years younger than he, as his secretary. She later said that they met at one-forty-five and...
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Jul 7, 2015 · biographie & informations. Nationalité : Canada. Né (e) à : Ottawa , le 04/05/1920. Mort (e) : 1995. Biographie : Denyse Marie Pauline Françoise Ouimet est la seconde épouse de l'écrivain Georges Simenon (1903-1989). En 1945, elle rencontre l'auteur à New York. Il l'engage comme secrétaire bilingue.
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Sep 25, 2016 · It was written in 1968, but its atmosphere clearly derived from Simenon’s own period of residence in Connecticut, where he moved to live with his new wife, Denyse Ouimet, in the late 1940s.
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.” Simenon refuted charges of misogyny. His work only reflected reality, he claimed.
and a dark-haired Canadian woman of twenty-six, Denyse Ouimet, his secretary and openly acknowledged mistress. Somewhere back East, waiting to hear where Simenon would next choose to settle down for a few weeks or months, was his wife of more than twenty years, Regine Renchon Simenon, whom everyone called Tigy. She was accustomed to a nomadic life.
