While looted artworks are meant to be returned to the heirs of their owners, there is only a non-binding "moral obligation" to return those pieces which were confiscated as "degenerate art" and then sold on.
She had second thoughts about releasing it, and never showed it to a publisher; but 21 years after her death, her heirs have the satisfaction of seeing at the top of the non-fiction list.
There are many twists in the plot, including her decision to take her revenge on Saint-Exupéry's haughty family by leaving her half-share of all the writer's royalties (as well as her house) to her gardener-chauffeur, Jose Fructuoso Martinez, who owns a mass of documents that can only be published when the quarrelling heirs come to some agreement.
Though the Confederacy lost in 1865, its heirs still holler for war against their own government.
It has been returned to the heirs of Julius Priester, an industrialist who fled Vienna for Mexico on the eve of war.
Unfortunately, a move that saved Monroe's heirs millions of dollars at the time could now end up costing them far more.
Since then, Germany has established an expert panel to review the art works and determine which of them might be legitimately claimed by former owners or their heirs.
Economists are the new nuclear physicists, turned to by governments for advice as though they are heirs to the power of the scientists who created Hiroshima.
Hereditary lords, heirs to medieval warriors, can still vote on legislation in a 21st century democracy?
Sinn Féin, by contrast, has deliberately cultivated collective leadership, bringing forward wave after wave of young, articulate, highly politicised heirs apparent, and their grassroots organisation is awesome.
The heirs to the fabled Rockefeller oil fortune withdrew their funds from fossil fuel investments on Monday, lending a symbolic boost to a $50bn divestment campaign ahead of a United Nations summit on climate change.
