Banine

Banine, born Ummulbanu Asadullayeva, was born in Baku on 18 December 1905, granddaughter of the oil millionaire Chamsi Assadoullaïev and daughter of Mirza Assadoullaïev, minister of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan. Forced into marriage as a teenager, she left her husband in Istanbul and reached Paris in the mid-twenties. There she wrote in French, was a friend of Ernst Jünger, to whom she devoted three books, converted to Catholicism and died in Paris on 23 October 1992.

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• NovelDays in the CaucasusJours caucasiensBanine · 1945Literature