It all started from a drawer.
That of a light wooden desk, locked for decades.
When he finally manages to open it, Thomas Snégaroff comes across the manuscript of a never-published novel and four charcoal drawings.
On one of them, he recognizes his great-grandfather, Dimitri, owner of the piece of furniture and printer for Montparnasse artists at the turn of the 20th century.
Another represents a woman with a sad face.
The four works bear the same signature, illegible.
An art expert friend is clear: the name at the bottom is that of François Angiboult.
And this is the pseudonym of Baroness d'Oettingen, when she was a painter.
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