Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir
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Jean Charles Pierre Lenoir was a French lawyer who headed the Paris police in the period immediately before the French Revolution of 1789–99. He had broad responsibility for maintaining public order,
The Halle aux blés, built under Lenoir's administration
Portrait of Lenoir engraved by Juste Chevillet after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Paul Wentworth (counsellor)
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Paul Wentworth was a lawyer and plantation owner in Surinam, a stockbroker in London, a British intelligence agent to Lord North during the American War of Independence, and a politician who sat in th
Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir
…William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland Paul Wentworth…
Before open war between France and Britain, Pierre Beaumarchais was at the center of an arms traffic to support American Insurgents.
The Brandenburg House, a splendid mansion in Dutch style, made out of bricks, overlooking the Thames; drawn by S. Owen, engraved by W. Cooke (1809).