Upon the end of the war, Stahl's two male heirs wrote Romania's first course in Marxist sociology. Voinea became ambassador of Romania in Bern, but fell out with the communist regime and defected to the West. He worked for the French Radio and Television Broadcasting and was active within the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The other Stahls remained in Romania. Henriette's relation to Voinea resulted in the censoring of her novels, and she was banned from publishing for some 10 years.Bălaj, p. 30 She was protected from imprisonment by her ten-year-long affair with Petru Dumitriu, the official communist poet. When Dumitriu himself defected in 1960, Henriette was detained for several months and made to confess that she had been Dumitriu's ghostwriter.Bălaj, pp. 29–30 Marian Victor Buciu, "Proza Henriettei Yvonne Stahl", in România Literară, Nr. 7/2008 She was later released, and continued to publish, in both Romania and her native France, until well into her seventies; she died in 1984.
