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Banine had a emigrated to France in 1923, following her father who was a minister in the government of [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]]. She seizedmoved theto opportunityIstanbul ofwhere ashe visitabandoned to [[Constantinople]] to abandon aher husband, she had been forced to marry at the age of fifteen and then fled to [[Paris]]. There, after many years, literary acquaintances, including [[Montherlant]], Kazantzakis, and [[Malraux]] urged her to publish. Banine dedicated her later life to introducing the history and culture of Azerbaijan to France and Europe. Her most famous writings are "Caucasians days" and "Parisians days". Banine, who was the friend of the German writer [[Ernst Junger]] and Russian [[Ivan Bunin]], tells about her conversion to Catholicism in her books. Just before she died Azerbaijan asked her to return in Baku, but she refused {{citationsources}}