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Before there was Jeffrey Epstein there was this dood: guess his name
| Jared Baumeister | 02/24/26 |
| Jared Baumeister | 02/24/26 |
| Jared Baumeister | 02/24/26 |
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Date: February 24th, 2026 8:55 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Voltaire wrote of him, “C’est un homme qui ne meurt jamais et qui sail tout,” but Frederick the Great wrote back, “C’est un comte pour rire.” Horace Walpole described him as an Italian or Spaniard or Pole who had made a fortune in Mexico and then fled to Constantinople with his wife’s jewels. The most reliable information about him comes from the memoirs of Madame du Hausset, la Pompadour’s femme de chambre. He had gone by various names: Surmont in Brussels, Welldone in Leipzig, the Marquis of Ay-mar or Bedmar or Belmar, Count Soltikoff. In 1745 he was arrested in London, where he excelled as a musician, giving violin and harpsichord recitals in drawing rooms. Three years later he offered his services as an expert in dyeing to Louis XV in Paris, in exchange for a residence in the chateau of Chambord. The king sent him on diplomatic missions to Holland, where he got into some sort of trouble and fled to London again. In 1762 he turned up in Russia, then again in Belgium, where he encountered Casanova, who tells us how he turned a coin into gold. In 1776 he appeared at the court of Frederick the Great, to whom he proposed various projects having to do with chemistry. Eight years later he died in Schleswig, at the court of the landgrave of Hesse, where he was putting the finishing touches on a manufactory for paints. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838109&forum_id=2...id.#49692899) |
Date: February 24th, 2026 9:00 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Here's a quote attributed to him:
“After a couple of centuries an incurable ennui takes possession of the wretched immortals. The world is monotonous, men learn nothing, and, with every generation, they fall into the same errors and nightmares, events are not repeated but they resemble one another...novelties end, surprises, revelations. I can confess to you now that only the Red Sea is listening to us: my immortality bores me. Earth holds no more secrets for me and I have no hope anymore in my fellows.” |
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Date: February 24th, 2026 10:18 PM Author: Jared Baumeister (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5838109&forum_id=2...id.#49693198) |