Marguerite Steinheil describes her childhood, her marriage to the painter Adolphe Steinheil and the Paris salon that brought her into the circle of President Félix Faure, along with her view of the Dreyfus years. The later chapters recount the night in May 1908 when her husband and mother were killed, and the investigation and trial that made her infamous.
A self-defence published in 1912 by one of the most talked-about women in Belle Époque France, to be read with a skeptical eye. Download the free EPUB.