by Susan Ronald
5 Ibid., Ludwig Vogel file 39–110, John D. Ryan Report, November 2, 1948.
6 Ibid., Ludwig Vogel file, 1948 affidavits.
7 ANF, AJ40-89/19.25, Ministère Public c/ x … pouvant être le personnel dirigeant de la Banque Charles de Monaco.
8 Jean Chalon, Florence et Louise les Magnifiques: Florence Jay-Gould et Louise de Vilmorin (Paris: Éditions du Rocher, 1999), 28–29
9 James Lord, Six Exceptional Women (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux), 52–59.
10 Gilles Cornut-Gentille and Philippe Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould: Une Américaine à Paris (Paris: Mercure de France, 1989), 163.
11 Ibid., 163–164. The date in the book is wrong, stating that the check was presented on February 27. I have corrected this to February 25, 1947, in accordance with the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling referenced below.
12 Martin J. Kelly, John T. Cahill, U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832–1978, Anne Vilbert De Sairigne, Petitioner, v. Frank Jay Gould. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings (Washington, D.C.: Gale, Making of Modern Law Print Edition, 1949), 3, hereinafter “Supreme Court Ruling.”
13 Ibid., 3–9.
14 Ibid., Supreme Court Ruling, 2–6.
15 Ibid., Supreme Court Ruling, 3, 5.
16 NARA, Series 1, Section 1, File 65-HQ53642, “Florence Lacaze Gould alias Mrs. Frank Jay Gould, Treason Case,” Florence Gould statement, hereinafter “Gould/OSS Testimony,” letter dated April 25, 1945, 6.
17 Cornut-Gentille and Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould, 164.
18 Lisa Hilton, The Horror of Love (London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2011), 171–172.
19 The private family Palewski files were requested at the ANF but not made available during my research period.
20 Hilton, The Horror of Love, 178.
21 JSTOR, Kenneth O’Reilly, Illinois Historical Journal, vol. 81, no. 1 (Spring, 1988), “Adlai E. Stevenson, McCarthyism, and the FBI,” 45–60.
28. A Fortune to Give Away
1 Jean Chalon, Florence et Louise les Magnifiques: Florence Jay-Gould et Louise de Vilmorin (Paris: Éditions du Rocher, 1999), 29.
2 Paul Léautaud, Journal Litteraire, vol. XVII: August 1946–August 1949 (Paris: Mercure de France, 1964), 256–257.
3 Gilles Cornut-Gentille and Philippe Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould: Une Américaine à Paris (Paris: Mercure de France, 1989), 178.
4 https://www.newspapers.com/image/139840216/?terms=%22Frank%2BJ.%2BGould%22, St. Louis Dispatch, January 10, 1951.
5 Ibid., 167.
6 NARA, Series 1, Section 1, File 65-HQ53642, letter from Dorothy Gould Burns’s lawyer.
7 Paul Léautaud and Jean Paulhan, Correspondance 1921–1968 (Paris: NRF, Gallimard, 2012), 903, 904, 906–910.
8 I thank Dr. Matthew Balerdi for this tentative diagnosis.
9 Cornut-Gentille and Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould, 168.
10 Ibid., 169.
11 NARA, Series 1, Section 1, File 65-HQ53642, Dorothy Gould Burns deposition to Russell Porter.
12 When I was in the hotel business beginning in 1974, I remarked to my boss one day that there was a preponderance of Swiss hoteliers, and I was told this adage for the first time. I soon learned that it was a commonly accepted fact in the industry that many “Swiss” (or German) hoteliers had been put into strategic positions at the close of the war.
13 NARA, Series 1, Section 1, File 65-HQ53642, March 6, 1958, letter.
14 NARA, Series 1, Section 1, File 65-HQ53642, Mattheson deposition, August 28, 1958.
15 NARA, A1-136AR, box 3, McCue report from Fock-Wulf, February 1956.
16 Ibid., Glenn W. Thompson report, October 4, 1955, witness statement of Elfriede Elsner Vogel Gassner.
17 http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20150805.OBS3750/quand-la-france-graciait-deux-ss-de-haut-rang.html.
18 Angie David, Dominique Aury (Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, 2006), 156–157
19 Cornut-Gentille and Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould, 224; cf. Maurice Chevalier, Môme à cheveux blancs (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1969), 191–192
29. Queen of the Riviera
1 Gilles Cornut-Gentille and Philippe Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould: Une Américaine à Paris (Paris: Mercure de France, 1989), 172–173.
2 ANF, 19940053/11, dossiers 82–87.
3 AMC, 7 W 120.
4 Cornut-Gentille and Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould, 225.
5 Ibid., 179–180.
6 Magali Serre, Les Wildenstein (Paris: JC Lattès, 2013), 18–19.
7 Cornut-Gentille and Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould, 188–189.
8 Ibid., 191–192.
9 Author interview with Howard Zar, director at Lyndhurst, January 2016.
10 Lindy Woodhouse, War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry (London: Virago Press, 2012), 349–350
11 MMA, Florence J. Gould file, New York Times, November 23, 1968.
12 MMA, ibid., letter dated Sunday [1967].
13 MMA, ibid., letters dated “Mercredi,” received April 15, 1968, and April 9, 1968.
14 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1993/01/24/the-exhibitionist/be1d0618-e34a-43a2-b1a4-c8fcd7b5b877/?utm_term=.97d2f2ecfd3a; Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 104.
15 Ibid., 105.
16 MMA, ibid., letter for deed of gift, dated September 25, 1972.
17 MMA, ibid., letter dated August 21, 1906.
18 Cornut-Gentille and Michel-Thiriet, Florence Gould, 258.
Epilogue
1 MMA, New York Times, “Gould Art Collection Brings Record Prices,” April 26, 1985.
2 http://lootedart.com/MFEU4A34776.
3 MMA, New York Times, “Florence Gould Dead—Benefactor of the Arts,” March 2, 1983.
4 Interview with Howard Zar at Lyndhurst, January 2016.
5 MMA, New York Times, “The Treasures of Mrs. Gould,” June 22, 1984.
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Archival Manuscripts
ANF:
AJ/40-828a
Z6/NL/8950
BB/30/1821
8AR/598
8AR/647
8AR/636
8AR/585
8AR/608
8AR/628
199/20627/18 (Files 82–87, French Foundations)
82/16321 (Ministry of the Interior, legal opinion)
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ADAM:
rr127.1994.02
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rr73.1980.03
rr123.1993.02
rr123.1993.06
rr123.1993.04
rr124.1993.04
rr127.1993.04
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rr146—negresco
rr163—journaux mondains
rr167—restaurants Zaharoff
rr171—vie culturelle nicoise
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rr184—Dalmas
ADVN:
1 I 2. (historic gambling clubs)
1 I 6. (historic gambling clubs)
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1 I 8. Palais de la Méditerranée
AMC:
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14M9
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CDJC:
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PP:
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