Françoise Engels is a French dancer born in Mouscron (Belgium) in 1929.
She met the composer Henri Betti during the operetta "Baratin" in "L'Européen" in 1949. They married the same year in Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine).
It is in this same operetta that the lyricist André Hornez met the dancer Gisèle Fréry who became his wife in 1963.