Renée Dahon

Renée Dahon (1893–1969) was a French actress.

Personal life Dahon was born on 18 December 1893. She was described as short (around five feet tall) and slim.

Following an eight-year-long affair, Dahon married playwright Maurice Maeterlinck at Chateau Neuf-de-Contes in 1919. In the early 1930s, Dahon gave birth to a stillborn child.

In 1940, Maeterlinck and Dahon were forced to flee their home in Paris with her parents due to the advance of the Germans. They arrived in the United States in July 1940, and resettled in New York City, moving into an apartment in the Hotel Esplanade. Despite their age difference, friends reported them to be devoted to each other.

Dahon died on 8 December 1969, aged 75. She also acted in several films.