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gent noun. M16.
[Abbreviation.]
A gentleman. Now colloq. & commercial. M16.
S. Lewis George's missus went into the gent's wear department..to buy him some collars. I. Murdoch 'He'll murder you.' 'Not he,' said Norman...'He's a gent'.
In pl. (treated as sing. & pl.). A public convenience for males, = GENTLEMAN 4d. M20.

Laffitte, Jacques (sh)




born Oct. 24, 1767, Bayonne, France
died May 26, 1844, Maisons-sur-Seine

French banker and politician.

He became a partner in a Perregaux banking house in 1800 and head of the firm in 1804. As governor of the Bank of France (1814-19), he raised large sums of money for the provisional government in 1814 and for Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days. He saved Paris from a financial crisis in 1818. An early partisan of a constitutional monarchy under Louis-Philippe, he did much to secure Louis-Philippe's accession to the throne, and he briefly served as premier (1830-31) in the July Monarchy.


Jacques Laffitte, drawing by A. Deveria; in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris