Editing Simone Signoret (section)

== Personal life ==
Signoret's memoirs ''Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be'', were published in 1978. She also wrote the novel ''Adieu Volodya'', published in 1985, the year of her death.

Signoret first married filmmaker [[Yves Allégret]] (1944–1949), with whom she had a son (Patrick) and a daughter [[Catherine Allégret]]. Patrick died nine days after his birth. Privately, Signoret blamed the hospital for his death as they had taken Patrick to a chapel for baptism and he shortly thereafter caught a cold and died. Signoret never spoke publicly about his death.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Demaio |first1=Patricia A. |title=Garden of Dreams The Life of Simone Signoret |date=2014 |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |location=[[Jackson, Mississippi]] |isbn=9781604735697 |page=70 |url=https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Garden-of-Dreams |access-date=17 April 2025}}</ref>

Her second marriage was to the Italian-born French actor [[Yves Montand]] in 1951, a union which lasted until her death; the couple had no children.

Signoret died of pancreatic cancer in [[Autheuil-Authouillet]], France, aged 64. She was buried in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris, and Yves Montand later was buried next to her.

Signoret identified as Jewish. She was a supporter of a variety of Jewish causes, including the [[Zionism|Zionist]] movement and the [[Soviet Jewry movement]]. She maintained relationships with many Israeli leaders and was critical of antisemitism in the [[French Communist Party]]. Because she was of [[Who is a Jew?|patrilineal]] Jewish ancestry and was therefore not considered Jewish under traditional [[halakha]], there was no religious ceremony at her funeral.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/simone-signoret-dead-at-64 |title=Simone Signoret Dead at 64 |publisher=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |accessdate=2024-04-29}}</ref>