Bugatti
February, 1962
Ettore Bugatti was an Italian who lived his life in France among Frenchmen, and he was, they said, un type, or as we say, a character, an exotic, one of a kind, greatly gifted, proud, unswervingly independent, indifferent to any opinion but his own, amused, aristocratic, impractical, profligate, a connoisseur, a gourmet, a bon vivant.He died in 1947 after 66 years of life full of frenzy and creation. There are many photographs of him. He is in one of his racing cars in 1925, his two sons crowded...