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Epilogue: The Cricket

1
H
UGUETTE RECITED A POEM:
Dr. Henry Singman testified about Huguette reciting the poem in three languages in his testimony, August 16 and 20, 2012, Depositions.

2
“T
HE
C
RICKET”
: This translation of “Le Grillon” is adapted, with a few modifications to modernize, from
Douze Fables: Avec Traduction Littérale Allemande et Anglaise En Regard Suivies Du Vocabulaire
, Frédéric Edouard Sillig (Vevey, Switzerland: F. Recordon, 1858), 55–59.

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New York, Surrogate’s Court of New York County, case 1995-1375A, the estate of Huguette M. Clark, 2011–. Beyond the material filed in court, the authors have reviewed the deposition testimony of more than fifty witnesses.

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