The Vanished Collection

Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open. Like the best memoirists, she manages to tell multiple stories simultaneously, to delicately layer meanings and narratives -- Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder A charmingly told account of a woman's quest to reconstruct her great-grandfather's art collection -- Lynn H. Nicholas, author of The Rape of Europa Beautifully evokes a vanished world that once stood at the crossroads between the heights of civilization and the depths of barbarism before being overwhelmed by the latter -- James Gardner, author of The Louvre A terrific book * Le Point * As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' * Elle * Pauline Baer de Perignon transforms an unfortunately commonplace account of paintings stolen by the Nazis into a breathtaking novel of suspense * Le Figaro * Grips ever tighter as the investigation proceeds * FRANCE Magazine * Combines dogged detective work with family memoir * Apollo Magazine *