After it was fixed, she said, they lived on a tight budget for a while. Flodin told friends she had been a shop clerk in Sweden. Einhorn's only hint of work was writing a book, which he would not show to anyone, friends said. He claimed to lecture occasionally at European universities about medical subjects. It did not take much for the couple to survive in Champagne-Mouton.
Prices are modest, distractions are few.
Einhorn satisfied a voracious appetite for reading by borrowing books at a local library. He claimed he could read better in French than his English-speaking acquaintances, although they doubted it because he spoke almost no French. Benefactors have been a way of life for Einhorn. That amount was immediately posted by Bronfman, then the wife of Seagram's liquor heir Charles Bronfman, by reputation the richest man in Canada. Einhorn may have had multiple fund-raising efforts under way.