Biography

Jeanne Bourin or Jeanne Mondot (13 January 1922 – 19 March 2003) was a French writer known for her historical novels. Jeanne Mondot was born in Paris in 1922. She married the writer André Bourin in 1942. Catholic returned to the faith of her childhood at the age of 40, she admires medieval society which she studied extensively and depicts she in the framework of her novels. In 1963 her book Le bonheur est une femme: roman and this was a historic fiction about the relationship between Pierre de Ronsard (Prince of Poets) and Cassandra Salviati. Her sentimental and idealized vision of the Middle Ages, still close to the one of Régine Pernoud,...Read More