Anne Golon

Anne Golon was a French novelist and journalist, best known for the Angélique historical romance novels written with her husband, Serge Golon.

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Angélique (novel series): A historical romance series following the adventures of Angélique de Sancé in seventeenth-century France. The series that made Golon internationally known and shaped her career.
Vsevolod Sergeïvitch de Goloubinoff: A Russian-born geologist and writer who became known as Serge Golon, Anne Golon’s husband and literary collaborator. His biography explains the origins of the shared Golon author name.
Angélique (film series): A series of French historical adventure films adapted from the Angélique novels, beginning in 1964. The films brought Golon’s heroine and stories to a wider audience.
Collaborative writing: The creation of a written work by two or more authors working together. The Angélique novels were produced through Golon’s collaboration with Serge.
Serge Golon: The pen name of Vsevolod Sergeïvitch de Goloubinoff, a Russian-born writer and geologist who coauthored the Angélique novels with Anne Golon. He collaborated with Golon on the series and shared its author credit.
French Resistance: The network of movements and individuals who opposed Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Golon’s wartime experience formed part of the background to her early life.
Angélique, Marquise des Anges: The first Angélique novel by Anne and Serge Golon, published in French in 1957. This opening volume launched the long-running series.
Single authorship: The creation of a written work credited to and produced by one author. Golon’s famous books were a partnership rather than a straightforward solo project.
Angélique (character): Angélique de Sancé is the heroine of the historical romance novels by Anne and Serge Golon. Golon’s best-known fictional creation is the series’ spirited central heroine.
Versailles: A city near Paris known for the Palace of Versailles, a center of French royal power under Louis XIV. Research into this royal world helped ground the Angélique novels’ setting.