In the old days, a bratty and obscure pinkie-raiser like Alexis, Baron de Rede would have stopped breathing, had his estate auctioned off at Sotheby’s (for $9.5 million) and that would have been that. Save for the odd mention in social histories of Paris, he would never have been heard from again. But thanks to Mark Zuckerberg (who would have struck the baron as an utter alien), Alexis lives on. His “Admirers Of” on Facebook number 239. By his own reckoning, de Rede (1922-2004) was…
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