It was Vichy's bewhiskered, palsied, senescent (64) Jean-Pierre Esteva, the five-star admiral who had been Marshal Petain's Resident General of Tunisia.
Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay undergroundtill the palsied reader dare not make a dash to .
Last week gallery-goers in Paris and Manhattan could see the real thing: paintings from Dufy's palsied but still brilliant hand and (in Paris) tapestries woven from his designs.