Guardian Australia · Prix Goncourt

How the story of ‘the girl of 100 portraits’ inspired two books

· By Kim Willsher
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Luc Corlouër made ‘deal’ with Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada over his research into model Louise Cansot, murdered in Paris in 1949For almost eight decades the artists’ model Louise Cansot, the subject of the novel winning France’s most prestigious literary prize this year, was one of Paris’s forgotten murder …

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