by Pierre Assouline · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070410514
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«Le dernier des Camondo» is the historical novel by Pierre Assouline, published by Folio in paperback (352 pages, in French).
The work focuses on Count Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935), heir to a family of Levantine Jewish bankers established in Paris during the Second Empire, and on the high French Jewish society of his time, where the Rothschilds, Pereires, Foulds and Cahen d'Anvers mixed. Between the Inquisition and the Holocaust, the family saga becomes the portrait of a man who tried to perpetuate his world by rebuilding an 18th-century aristocratic mansion.
The work originally appeared in 1996; this edition, revised and expanded by the author, was published in 1999. It includes bibliographical references on pages 323-336.
For those interested in biographies and European history, and for those wishing to practice reading in French.
Pierre Assouline is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.
