Word: boursin
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...begin with, Marthe had to sign the marriage register with her less aristocratic real name of Maria Boursin. Embarrassed at having to reveal her humble origins to her husband, she told a little lie; she swore that she had no living relatives...
...decided to act. In his small studio he took out a sheet of his fine drawing paper, wrote: "I name Pierre Bonnard my sole legatee," and signed it with the name of Maria Boursin. But he was so inept a scoundrel that he dated the will on the day he wrote it-ten months after Marthe's death. When Bonnard himself died in 1947, the obvious fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that...