LETTERS TO CAMONDO

Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling me moir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of ant i-semitism.Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art f or his son to inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and, on the Count's death, was bequea thed to ...[Llegir més]