This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...place it at the moment. A casual inquiry, reinforced by ten sous, gave me the information I was after. "The big gentleman in the stage box?" the programme girl asked. "Why, that's Monsieur Alcibiade Baltazzi, the great Baltazzi. I thought everybody knew him." The girl was right. Everybody did know him. His was a name ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...place it at the moment. A casual inquiry, reinforced by ten sous, gave me the information I was after. "The big gentleman in the stage box?" the programme girl asked. "Why, that's Monsieur Alcibiade Baltazzi, the great Baltazzi. I thought everybody knew him." The girl was right. Everybody did know him. His was a name to conjure with in certain circles: nor the meanest circles at that. I studied him through my opera glasses. So that was Baltazzi! I had never seen him face to face before. Many years ago he had come out of Africa, and he had taken an immediate spotlight on the gay stage of Paris. For he had bought, cash down, the ill-famed marble palace in the Quartier d'Europe which Fiirst Trachenberg-Hatzfeldt, the Silesian "coal milliardaire," had built for Madame Lavedan. There was talk of silver bath tubs, and doorknobs studded with precious stones. When the Lavedan had finally ruined the young German, Baron Doria, the Portuguese, had bought it for Madame de Pugy. There had been more scandal, another noble name dragged through the slime of disgrace. Then came Baltazzi's turn. There were of course some croaking ravens of ill omen, willing to lay odds that the new proprietor would travel the road of his predecessors. But in the course of the years all such talk ceased. Baltazzi, instead of being ruined, quadrupled his fortune at the time of the first boom in the Kaffir market. Shortly afterwards he went into partnership with Lucien Perquel, son of the wealthy agent de change, and commenced to make financial history, both on the stock exchange and on the coulisse. There was no doubt any more of his financial stability, his huge resources, his steel-ribbed honesty. And, though the Faubourg and the Diplomatic Corps had frowned at ...
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