by Pierre Assouline · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070745548
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«Le dernier des Camondo» is the biography of Count Moïse de Camondo, by Pierre Assouline, published by Gallimard in paperback (304 pages, in French).
The saga of the Camondos, Levantine bankers, is reconstructed from the Spanish Inquisition to the Holocaust. The protagonist, Count Moïse de Camondo, belonged to the Parisian Jewish aristocracy and devoted his fortune to a house-museum in the plaine Monceau. A historical chronicle and reflection on solitude, memory and the twilight of a dynasty.
Originally published in 1997. Includes bibliographic references at the end of the volume.
For readers of historical biographies interested in the European Jewish aristocracy and Paris in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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.
