Background
The daughter of Count Charles de Romrée, Belgian ambassador, and Marie-Madeleine Crombez, she was born in Bern.
The daughter of Count Charles de Romrée, Belgian ambassador, and Marie-Madeleine Crombez, she was born in Bern.
From 1940, she moved with her father to various diplomatic postings. She served as press attaché at the Belgian consulate in South Africa. While there, she began to write Louisiana Taverne des sept mers.
Carnets de guerre, Capetown 1941-1943, Alger 1944.
In 1944, she returned to Belgium by way of Algiers and Paris. Her first novel was Les Publicains.
At this point, poor health prevented her from finishing any further work. She contributed to Louisiana Revue générale and, as a Catholic, helped establish the Sciptores catholici, an association of Catholic writers in Belgium, in 1934.
She died in Brussels at the age of 85.