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LA Grande Therese The Greatest Scandal of the Century

LA Grande Therese The Greatest Scandal of the Century

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  • ISBN-13: 9780060955922
  • ISBN: 0060955929
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

AUTHOR

Spurling, Hilary

SUMMARY

A hundred years ago Therese Humbert was one of the most powerful women in France. Her salon was the center of Parisian life. Her wealth -- as the assumed illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire -- was fabled. She lived life on a grand scale and was the toast of Paris. But Therese was not what she claimed to be. Her lifestyle, her history, and, most important, her fortune -- were all an elaborate hoax. When her con was finally exposed, thousands of small investors and creditors, including the inlaws of the artist Henri Matisse, were completely ruined. Therese was tried and sentenced to five years' hard labor. When she was released from prison, she vanished, as did the story of her life, due to the disgrace of so many wealthy and important people."La Grande Therese is the remarkable story of the spectacular rise and fall of a French peasant girl with an extraordinary imagination and irresistible powers of persuasion.Spurling, Hilary is the author of 'LA Grande Therese The Greatest Scandal of the Century' with ISBN 9780060955922 and ISBN 0060955929.

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