We were not armed : the true story of family whose lives were stolen by a conman
Vedrines, Christine de2014
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the de Vedrines were an ancient aristocratic Bordeaux family who owned property and wealth. By 2012, they has been reduced to living in poverty, scattered in flats and bedsits in Oxford, far from their ancestral home. Over the space of ten years they had been tricked out of their possessions, with brother turned against sister and child against parent, believing that the only way to save themselves from a conspiracy of Freemasons was to put themselves under the control of conman Thierry Tilly. The conspiracy did not exist, but Tilly used this story to brainwash them, and even kidnapped them when they showed signs of resistance. It took the courage of Christine de Vedrines to break away from Tilly's iron grip, escape to France, and alert lawyers and police. Her story of how she did that is simply told but moving and sometimes almost unbelievable.
Main title:
We were not armed : the true story of family whose lives were stolen by a conman / Christine de Vedrines.
Author:
Vedrines, Christine de, author
Imprint:
Newbold on Stour : Skyscraper, 2014.
Collation:
200 pages
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780992627058 (hbk)0992627052
Dewey class:
364.1'63'0944364.16309364.163
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
900418