La Grande Therese Hilary Spurling

Name: La Grande Therese By Hilary Spurling
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La Grande Therese by Hilary Spurling

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Summary

Therese Humbert's salon captivated fin-de-siecle Paris. But her background and fabled wealth were a hoax. Her audacious scam was exposed in 1902, investors and creditors were ruined, and Therese died disgraced and penniless. This biography breathes life into a 100-year-old scandal of extortion, deception, duels and suicides.

La Grande Therese Summary

La Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle of the Century by Hilary Spurling

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.

About Hilary Spurling

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.

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Sku

GOR006692824

ISBN 13

9781861972200

ISBN 10

1861972202

Title

La Grande Therese: The Greatest Swindle of the Century by Hilary Spurling

Author

Hilary Spurling

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Year published

20001002

Number of pages

144

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