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Updated: June 24, 2025
"A thousand crowns would pull me through. I have resolved to turn steady and give up play, and I have done a little 'chantage' to pay my debts." "What is 'chantage'?" asked Lucien. "It is an English invention recently imported.
There is a chance of selling the paper for three hundred thousand francs; Finot would have one-third, and his partners besides are going to pay him a commission, which he will share with des Lupeaulx. So I propose to do another turn of 'chantage." "'Chantage' seems to mean your money or your life?" "It is better than that," said Lousteau; "it is your money or your character.
Sometimes they act as a kind of irregular police force, levying chantage from those whom they detect in the commission of an offence; and, when crime is scarce, they often exact blackmail from wholly innocent people by threatening to accuse them of some ill-deed, unless their goodwill is purchased at their own price.
A woman may be charged under the Act if she, being above the age of sixteen, with consent permits her grandfather, father, brother, or son, to have carnal knowledge of her. There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage. There are many different forms of this industry.
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