wool-trade

Updated: May 17, 2025

One, the youngest of the family, was at this time a judge in the Lower courts of the Seine, courts which take cognizance of all civil contests involving sums above a certain amount. The eldest, who was in the wholesale wool-trade, lost his property and died, leaving to the care of Madame Ragon and his brother an only son, who had lost his mother at his birth.

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