Summary

Anne-Catherine's lawyer insists that being with Stéphane was the worst thing Anne-Catherine has ever done, and that she regrets it immensely. He stresses Stéphane's emotional turbulence, and manipulative behavior. Anne-Catherine lives in a small apartment in Mulhouse, and is raising her son. Both her and her parent's homes were searched, but revealed nothing. She continues to work at the hospital. Despite the massive media attention the trial gained, she never did interviews or publicized her story.

In the fifteen years that she and Stéphane had been together, including while in prison, they had stone nearly three hundred works of art from several European countries. They had intimately viewed, touched, and seen some of the most valuable pieces of art in the world. Though she refuses to talk about it, her life has been extraordinary.

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