Listen to the Summary of Tom Sancton's The Bettencourt Affair in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Rue Servandoni is a street in Paris that spans two blocks from the neoclassical Saint-Sulpice church to the Luxembourg Gardens. It is a street steeped in history and literature. François-Marie Banier was born in Paris on June 27, 1947. His father, Etienne, a Hungarian Jew who immigrated to France in the mid-1930s, beat him every day, and called him tordubent, twisted...