Word: vavasseur
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...Dieckmann went from Germany to France, told other scholars his theory that the Diderot manuscript was still in existence somewhere. One day a scholar casually remarked that he thought he might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt...
...business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them blazers while they are still in school, follow up this acquaintanceship from the time they graduate till they die . . . and more often than not, a man has mortgaged his soul to the friendly tailor with the Glen Urquhart plaids, Vavasseur silks, and hand-woven Shetlands long before that day arrives...
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