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Chevaloir De Seingatt's Life
Chevaloir de Seingatt in his memoirs describes about his life and adventures. His life is considered controversial as critics argue that all the points in his memoir are not true. But as his memoirs are relaiable they are considered as a historical source. Three incidents about his life are discussed.
Chevaloir depicted himself as wealthy when he lived in switzerland. He is remembered as throwing parties and for gambling. But critics later found out that he borrowed money from swiss merchant.He distorted his life as exciting and enormous.This becomes confounding. But borrowing money doesn’t mean that he was poor. Money comes from selling also ,so while he waited for his money at that time he must have borrowed the money.
Chevaloir had conversations

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