Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — A Wonderful Frenchman. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Frenchman.

The most remarkable man in Paris at the present moment is M. Phillipart, whose name and doings are on every man’s tongue. My traveling companion compared him to Baron Grant, but Baron Grant, in his most palmy days, never conceived schemes half so colossal as this man. A few months ago Phillipart was a bankrupt. Now he has paid every creditor in full, and is worth nobody knows how many millions. He must have some money, for it took 80,000,000 francs to pay his debts. Some time ago this French financier came to

grief over a gigantic scheme for the amalgamation of the French and Belgian railways. Now the state has adopted the whole or some portion of his plans, and bought Phillipart’s interest in tiie project. He promptly seized the opportunity to pay his creditors in full, and bring out the * Bank European,” and is at this moment the most talked-of man in France. —Paris Utter to Philadelphia Telegraph.