Word: necker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed up in Suzanne's plot to marry him. Rousseau said he would speak to Gibbon, but was glad an accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne invited Gibbon to the house frequently, kept tabs on him the rest of his life, although the scared historian took care not to get in her clutches again. Wary of all women after that, he took revenge on them by emphasizing...