Explores the intriguing life of the real d'Estoc, explaining why others came to doubt the "experts" and following the threads of evidence that the latter overlooked
Melanie C. Hawthorne is a professor of French at Texas A&M University, College Station. She has authored, edited, and translated numerous works, including Rachilde and French Women¿s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism (Nebraska, 2001), winner of the Modern Language Association¿s Scaglione Prize.
