Serge Panine

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Luc-Olivier Merson. A Polish prince, charming and penniless, marries the daughter of a self-made French manufacturer and proceeds to spend the works, the family and the marriage. Ohnet was the best-selling French novelist of his generation and the most despised — Jules Lemaître's demolition of him is stil...