La Grande Therese: The Greatest Sca...

La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the hundred years Hilary Spurling. New York: HarperCollins, 2000 132 pp $2000

from pretending to be the daughter of an American millionaire, Humbert swindled French high society during the late nineteenth hundred years leading to bank failures and political scandal. "Although her work is filled with delightful cartoons and illustrations, readers will contrition that Spurling didn't flesh not at home more of the social history of the era, especially when