Curse you London!
France’s First Fascist
David Todd
The Marquis de Morès was an extraordinary villain in an epoch crowded with the vile and the louche. After he killed a Jewish officer in a duel in 1892, a prosecutor seeking his conviction for murder captured Morès’s scrappy life of endless reinvention: ‘Cuirassier in Saint-Cyr, meat merchant in Chicago, engineer in Tonkin, reserve second lieutenant in the dragoons, nightstick-major in the streets, marquis in the salons, anarchist in meetings, these are the trappings of
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