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Name
  
Ratna Mohini


Died
  
1988, Paris, France

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Role
  
Spouse
  
Henri Cartier-Bresson (m. 1937–1967)

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Ratna "Elie" Mohini (17 May 1904, Batavia – 24 October 1988, Paris) was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967.

She was born in Batavia as Carolina Jeanne de Souza-IJke. Ratna was known as "Elie" to her friends. Between 1930 and 1935 she was married to the Dutch journalist Willem L. Berretty.

Cartier-Bresson and Mohini divorced in 1967, after 30 years of marriage, and Cartier-Bresson then married the photographer Martine Franck in 1970.

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