They were three generations of magnificent??red-haired beauties born to scandal， bred to success，??bound to a single extraordinary man--Julien Mistral，??the painter， the genius， the lover whose passions??had seared them all. Maggy--Flamboyant mistress of??Mistral s youth， the toast of Paris in the 20s.??Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the??paintings that made Mistral legendary. Teddy--Maggy s??daughter， the incomparable cover girl who lived fast??and left as her legacy Mistral s dazzling love??child. Fauve--Mistral s daughter， the headstrong，??fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her??to rule the world of high fashion and to risk??everything in a feverish search for love. From the?? 20s Paris of Chanel， Colette， Picasso and Matisse to??New York s sizzling new modeling agencies of the?? 50s， to the model ward of the 70s，??Mistral s Daughter captures the explosive??glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and??high fashion. Judith Krantz has given us a??glittering international tale as spellbinding as her??other celebrated best-sellers，??Scruples， Princess Daisy， I ll Take??Manhattan， Till We Meet Again，??Scruple s Two，??Dazzle， and Lovers.