Serge Golon
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Serge Golon (1903 - 1972), born Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, a writer, husband of French author Anne Golon, in collaboration with who he wrote the Angelique-series.
He was a Russian aristocrat, born in Persia (today called Iran) where his father was the Tzar's consul. He left Russia, fleeing to France, at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1917.
Goloubinoff knew 11 languages. He was a well-known geologist and chemist who prospected for gold for a living in China, Indochina, Laos and finally in the Congo where he met Anne Golon, then a French journalist. Their first book, published in 1957, was "Angélique, Marquise of the Angels".
In 1972 Anne and Serge Golon went to Canada to research their new book. The saga of Angélique was to be continued in the "New World". He died there. Anne and Serge Golon had 4 children.
