Word: marquiset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore last week the plight of a hitherto unnoticed Mme Drouard-Marquiset fascinated all prosperous French men. Secret agents had discovered in Switzerland at the Banque Commercials de Bâle a deposit in the name of Mme Drouard-Marquiset which she had omitted to disclose, as required by law. Result...
...Drouard-Marquiset was jailed for three months; she was "fined" 1,000 francs ($46.60) and "penalized" 190,812 francs ($8,896.60) ; she had to pay the costs of the Government's having caught and punished her; and for one month there will remain publicly posted up at the police station of her precinct in Paris a notice proclaiming "THE CONVICTION FOR FRAUD of Mme Drouard-Marquiset...
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