To all appearances, they should have been very happy. He was a famous Parisian dandy, although his only ticket to high society was his title of Marquis. She, having left her native America to live in Paris, was heiress to a fortune so large it would require more than one lifetime to spend. It was in Paris’ Belle Epoque that the lives of Anna Gould and Boni de Castellane would come together… However, we can’t talk about love here, because their meeting in 1894 had nothing to do with the romanticism of the ‘City of Love’.

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