Editing Simone Signoret (section)

== Personal life ==
Signoret's memoirs, ''Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be'', were published in 1976.<ref name="timesobit" /> She also wrote the novel ''Adieu Volodya'', published in 1985, the year of her death.<ref name="latobit">{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-10-01-mn-19173-story.html | work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] | title=French Actress Simone Signoret Dies at 64 | first=Stanley | last=Meisler | date=1 October 1985 | access-date=26 May 2025}}</ref>

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.<ref name="nytobit" />{{sfn|David|1993|p=205}} They were both active in left-wing and humanitarian causes, although as they grew older she gravitated towards the political centre and he to the right.<ref name="timesobit" /><ref name="latobit" /><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/10/world/yves-montand-sage-charmer-of-french-film-and-politics-dies-at-70.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Yves Montand, Sage Charmer of French Film and Politics, Dies at 70 | first=Alan | last=Riding | author-link=Alan Riding | date=10 November 1991 |url-access=subscription | access-date=25 May 2025}}</ref>

Signoret died of colon cancer in [[Autheuil-Authouillet]], France, aged 64.{{sfn|Bouchardeau|2005|pp=266-267}}<ref name="latobit" /> She was buried in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris,<ref name="nytobit" /> and Yves Montand later was buried next to her.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/12/world/paris-journal-beyond-the-grave-dna-haunts-yves-montand.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Beyond the Grave, DNA Haunts Yves Montand | first=Craig R. | last=Whitney | date=12 March 1998 |url-access=subscription | access-date=25 May 2025}}</ref>

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>