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Original Text:
Un soi disant Négociant, victime de ses victimes, fou, dissipateur et intrigant qui donne un pour cent à ses créanciers payable en dix ans, souffle sur le passé, se moque de l'avenir et se pavane en gants jaunes au bois de Boulogne, au Boulevard des Italiens, aux foyers des Théâtres, où il parle d'honneur, de probité appelle ses créanciers voleurs: se pose en victime politique, industrielle et morale! et éclabousse tout le monde.

Translation:
This is a so called merchant, victim of his victims, crazy, squanderer and intriguing. He pays 1% to his creditors for 10 years, forgets about the past, does not care about the future, struts about the Bois de Boulogne with his yellow gloves, strolls along the boulevard des Italiens and theatre lobbies. He talks of honour and decency and calls his creditors thieves. He loves the pose of the political, industrial and moral victim and splashes the whole world.