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Master forger Denis Vrain-Lucas sold 27,000 fake letters by everyone from Plato to Louis XIV

Saturday November 10, 2018. 01:05 PM , from BoingBoing
Denis Vrain-Lucas was an undistinguished forger until he met gullible collector Michel Chasles. Through the 1860s Lucas sold Chasles thousands of phony letters by everyone from Plato to Louis the 14th, earning thousands of francs and touching off a firestorm among confused scholars. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll trace the career of the world's most prolific forger.
We'll also count Queen Elizabeth's eggs and puzzle over a destroyed car.
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