Volume 54, Number 6 · April 12, 2007
A Scandal at the Villa Paradiso
By John Gross
All for Love
by Dan Jacobson
Metropolitan, 272 pp., $24.00
All the world loves a scandal. The affair of Princess Louise of Belgium and Géza Mattachich is forgotten today, but a hundred years ago newspapers and magazines were full of it. With good reason, since it had a great deal to offer their readers: adultery in high places, a royal elopement, a duel, forgery, wrongful incarceration, a daring escape, a whole string of related intrigues and mini-dramas.
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