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AGUADO, ALEXANDRE MARIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGUADO, See also:ALEXANDRE See also:MARIE , See also:marquis de See also:Las Marismas del See also:Guadalquivir, See also:viscount de See also:Monte Ricco (1784-1842), See also:Spanish banker, was See also:born of Jewish parentage at See also:Seville, on the 29th of See also:June 1784. He began See also:life as a soldier, fighting with distinction in the Spanish See also:war of See also:independence on the See also:side of See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte. After the See also:battle of Baylen (1808) he entered the See also:French See also:army, in which he See also:rose to be See also:colonel and aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Marshal See also:Soult. He was exiled in 1815, and immediately started business as a See also:commission-See also:agent in See also:Paris, where, chiefly through his See also:family connexions in See also:Havana and See also:Mexico, he acquired in a few years enough See also:wealth to enable him to undertake banking. The Spanish See also:government gave him full See also:powers to negotiate the loans of 1823, 1828, 183o and 1831; and See also:Ferdinand VII. rewarded him with the See also:title of marquis, the decorations of several orders and valuable See also:mining concessions in See also:Spain. Aguado also negotiated the See also:Greek See also:loan of 1834. In 1828, having become possessed of large estates in See also:France, including the See also:chateau Margaux, famous for its See also:wine, he was naturalized as a French See also:citizen. He died at Gijon in Spain on the 14th of See also:April 1842, leaving a See also:fortune 'computed at 60,000,000 francs, and a splendid collection of pictures which at his See also:death was bought by the French government.

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