Title : Suzanne's Destiny - The True Canson Affair - Mark Hunter - Book

Summary :

In 1985, the Louvre Museum acquired, under incredible circumstances, The Sevillian Gentleman, a magnificent full-length portrait by Murillo, the 17th- ^century Spanish master . Three years later, a scandal broke: the painting's heiress, Suzanne de Canson, died some time after the transaction, stripped of everything, in appalling and highly suspicious circumstances. The young Toulon judge Jean-Pierre Bernard, in charge of the investigation, quickly implicated several prominent figures in what became known as the Canson affair, including Louvre curator Pierre Rosenberg and the famous Marseille lawyer Paul Lombard, while other players in the drama, such as Jack Lang, Jacques Vergès, and Georges Kiejman, clashed in front of the media.

Mark Hunter, an American journalist living in Paris, was immediately struck by the Balzacian depth of the case, this unique collision of art, power, and crime, this universe of dark passions where a former bar owner deals as an equal with the Louvre. In January 1989, he set to work. Five years of investigation and hundreds of interviews allowed him to slip into the shoes of each of the main actors in the drama, to unearth facts that had "escaped" justice, and to show through this implacable account that the verdict handed down by the Var Assize Court in October 1991 did not answer all the questions. Far from it.

Mark Hunter published The Longest Days with Odile Jacob in 1990.

• EAN: 9782213592633
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