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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

Note 224 — BOOK XIV[162]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Jacques Laffitte (1767-1844), the banker. He was a prominent member of the Opposition throughout the Restoration and the Orleanist Usurpation. He was a capable financier and a generous and charitable individual.—T.

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