The spark for this remarkable memoir was a scribbled list of paintings that belonged to the Parisian author’s great-grandparents – Degas, Renoir, Monet, Tiepolo etc – of which she knew nothing. Suspense and sensitivity are finely balanced in this story of expropriation of Jewish property in the Nazi period.
The Vanished Collection
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The Camondos, Rothschilds, Ephrussis and others amassed superb collections which in many cases they left to the state that betrayed them.
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This fine debut turns about Margot, the natural child of a prominent French politician: adolescence, with all its tender spots and short focus, resentful, impressionable, knowing-it-all but ... read more
The Margot Affair
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SOE sent more than 400 agents into France of whom 39 were women. Vigurs traces them all here, not just the well known ones, and sets them in their context.