Daniel Ohanian<p>“A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer”</p><p>After proclaiming himself the direct descendant of a 12th-century <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crusader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crusader</span></a> king, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Armenian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Armenian</span></a> priest and educator Ambroise Calfa hit upon an ignoble scheme: grant knighthood to anyone willing to pay. These are the cunning exploits of a forgotten 19th-century <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conman</span></a>, whose initially honorable intentions quickly escalated into all-out fraud.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-princely-ploy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/a</span><span class="invisible">-princely-ploy/</span></a></p>