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The Perreaus and a Life of Ills in 1770s England
In a detailed memoir, the narrator recounts separated from Mr Rudd in 1769 and adopting the Gore alias to escape pursuit. She describes a contested fortune, a bond scandal, Perreau's wealth, and a marriage in Paris with shifting loyalties and schemes involving stock speculation, banking plots, and political intelligence networks, culminating in a tumultuous, morally fraught partnership and family pressures.
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Rudd Din
Gore
Rudd
Perreau
Matt
Morning Post
Mr. Perreau
Messrs. Drummonds
Temple's
Fatment-street
Jameson
Pall Mall Court
Mr. P
Paris
Colonel
Mr. Perreat
Robert Perreau
Daniel
London
Robert
Doctor Brooke
Perreaus
P—h
Occasio
Prince Guimene
Sach-a
England
Count Chatelet
R. Perreau
Walpole
Louis
Panchaud
F. B
George V—t
Lord Pris
East India Company
D— S—t
Treasury
Amsterdam
Hague
Adair
Stewart
James Adair
Soho Square
Mr. Adair
John Moody
Mrs. Adair
India
Mei. Adairs
William Adair
Hannah Dalhouse
Mills Susannah Perreau
Thomas Frankland
Guildhall
Holland
Mill Hill
T.ossented
Harley-street House