The painting was now on everyone’s minds. More and more people began to believe that this was a long-lost Boldini painting… It must have been worth millions. French genealogists dug deeper into the past life of Marthe de Florian. Birth records and newspaper clippings revealed that her real name was Mathilde Heloise Beaugiron and she was a seamstress. She had two children before she became an actress and a “society girl.” That still didn’t answer if she had a secret past with Boldini or not…
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