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Marie-Madeleine MacLean
Born Marie-Madeleine Maxence De Mees, was the daughter of a French Air Force General and a descendant of the De Mees family ennobled in Rotterdam in 1630, who held some of the oldest private banks ...view moreBorn Marie-Madeleine Maxence De Mees, was the daughter of a French Air Force General and a descendant of the De Mees family ennobled in Rotterdam in 1630, who held some of the oldest private banks in Europe. Her great uncle was Monsieur Pierre Roussel ,of the French Academy.
Ms. MacLean was born in Africa and grew up in Switzeland, where she graduated with degrees in History and Art. In addition to French, she speaks English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
At the age of 17, she began a career in high fashion modeling in Paris and at the age of 25, in London, she married Michael MacLean, the son of the famed international novelist, Alistair MacLean (“The Guns of Navarone”, “Where Eagles Dare”, “H.S.M. Ulysse”).
A few years later, Ms. MacLean opened an international interior design firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her works have been featured numerous times in international interior design magazines.
Ms. MacLean eventually sold her business to devote herself exclusively to writing.
She finished her first novel, “ Race.The Colour of Shame” in the Fall of 2012 (soon to be made into a movie) . She is currently working on her second novel, “Act of Intention”, that will be published by the spring of 2013.
Ms Marie-Madeleine Maclean spends her time between California, Switzerland and the South of France.
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