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  • Assemblée des Notables had met and had been dismissed to spread their agitation and disaffection throughout all France by the still more bewildered Loménie de Brienne, who was trying his hand at the impossible finances of France after the fall of that magnificent spendthrift,

    Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

  • But then it was the decay of a foppish spendthrift,

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • As for the economic issues said to be of more concern, the last thing we need is an audacious, freedom-eroding, spendthrift,

    ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community 2008

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