The Flapper Banker
Author: Dominique Desanti
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Publisher: Fayard
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Year of Publication: 1980
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Género literário: francês
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BANKER... Dominique Desanti invented this feminine term for Marthe Hanau, a "flapper," a pioneer of finance, greatly in love with men, women, luxury, travel, films... everything that was dazzling in 1925 and makes up our daily lives today. Marthe the Banker offers astounding dividends. She is adored; ministers attend her receptions. Her newspaper, La Gazette du Franc, brings together illustrious signatories.
Then the "Establishment" brings down the outsider. It's scandal, calumny, disavowal. Prison. The Banker will fight until death.
No fiction can convey the dramatic and often comical tone of this extraordinary life, recounted by Dominique Desanti, the biographer of Flora Tristan, Marie d'Agoult, and Drieu la Rochelle.