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La Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle of the Century

La Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle of the Century

by Hilary Spurling (Author)

Synopsis

Therese Humbert's salon captivated fin-de-siecle Paris. Her dazzling wealth, as the illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire, was fabled. But it was all a hoax. La Grande Therese looks at her life and times.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 02 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 1861972202
ISBN 13: 9781861972200

Author Bio
Hilary Spurling won the Whitbread Biography and Book of the Year 2005 for her biography of Henri Matisse, the product of 15 years' work. Her biography of Ivy Compton-Burnett won the Heinemann and Duff Cooper prizes. She has been a theatre and book critic for the Spectator, Observer and Telegraph, and lives in London.