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The story of Yves Chaudron creating 6 Mona Lisa copies, stealing the original, then selling to 6 different buyers is suspiciously similar to the core plot of the Doctor Who serial City of Death. But who stole from whom? Did the Doctor Who writer David Fisher know about the 1932 story about Yves Chaudron somehow and borrow it for his script? Or is the whole Wikipedia article about Yves Chaudron an invention? Did some prankster Doctor Who fan turn the City of Death plot into a Wikipedia article to see if someone would notice? All 5 references in the Chaudron article are Google Books links, none lists a page number. 3 look strange to me: "Leonardo's Lost Princess" looks like it's about a different painting. The book "The Man who Stole the Mona Lisa" looks like a novel, so I'm not sure how that's supposed to prove anything, maybe it has a foreword saying 'based on a 1932 news story'?. The book "Leonardo" is about the artist, Google Books Search says it doesn't contain the words Valfierno or Chaudron and yet is this book used as reference for the claim that Valfierno sold Chaudron's fakes for $300k. On the other hand The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal reference looks ok, the Chaudron story is indeed on p. 273. But I can't see where they got the story from, they don't mention a 1932 news article or a Karl Decker. I just hope they didn't take the story from Wikipedia. I really, really hope this article just has a few not-so-great references instead of being completely fake. Cheers. 93.237.12.163 (talk) 00:19, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
After more googling I think the Chaudron story came first and Doctor Who built upon it, so this article is real and just very badly sourced. 93.237.12.163 (talk) 00:59, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
