Word: vrain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vincent Starrett's The Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King...