Sir Richard Wallace - Le Millionaire Anglais de Paris - T...
Howard, Peter Bilingual Parallel text in English and French -- Texte bilingue français et anglais en parallèle." Sir Richard Wallace, who was most probably the illegitimate son of the 4th Marquess of Hertford, inherited a vast fortune including the Château de Bagatelle and the world's finest collection of 18th Century Art, now the Wallace Collection in London. During the siege of Paris in 1870, he used this fortune to aid the citizens of the city and donate...