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Gallatin and Savary Meet:
Spring, 1783 -- Jean Savary de Valcoulon, a Frenchman serving as an agent to money lender Rene Rapicault, finds himself in Gallatin's class. Savary is here to arrange repayment of funds loaded to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Ripicault. Unable to speak English, he enrolled with Gallatin at Harvard. Savary is impressed with Gallatin's character and intelligence and proposes that Gallatin join him on a business trip to Virginia which Gallatin eagerly accepts. |