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...throne, his brothers and their supporters in a bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court of Ava to get the concession to the royal ruby mines. He was a Frenchman, but she took him seriously. When he returned with a wife, Fanny stole copies of the treaties Mandalay had made with France, gave them to the English, had her revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Mandalay | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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