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Norris said that Lessard had said that someone had broken into his automobile last week and stolen a copy of the letter...
Floyd H. Norris was arrested yesterday in the Monitor newsroom, under the authority of a warrant signed by Peter Lessard, former mayor of Laconia...
Norris last April 9 published excerpts of a letter from Lessard to N.H. governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., in which Lessard said he had been "bribed" to drop his bid for a track license...
Delicious Deception. Journalists had a field day. How delicious is the deception of the rich! What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool...
Legros, who spends his time between a Paris apartment, a New York hotel suite (he briefly operated a Manhattan gallery), and various hideaways, has so far insisted that he made innocent mis takes. But Lessard is a French Canadian, and Legros is a naturalized U.S. citizen of French extraction; this description tallies with the two men from whom Meadows bought most of his paintings. "They were charming-real artists, the biggest con men ever," says Meadows wryly. But he is not taking the A.D.A.A.'s judgment as final. While another French dealer, who sold Meadows seven fakes...