Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime France (original) (raw)

The Business History Review, 1999

Abstract

Family loyalty had compelled Walter to support his parents and siblings; now he felt obliged to maintain Franks penniless widow and children, and to pay off 50,000ofhisbrothersdebts.Walterdiedin1899,agloomyandresentfuloldman,worthonly50,000 of his brothers debts. Walter died in 1899, a gloomy and resentful old man, worth only 50,000ofhisbrothersdebts.Walterdiedin1899,agloomyandresentfuloldman,worthonly28,697 and, in his own eyes, a failure. So far, none of his biographers would agree, but North America has not always been kind to engineers and very seldom to gentlemen.

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