Dumon person

“It seems likely that the auction of the new rentes was rigged by the Finance Minister so that James’s bid was exactly equal to the Minister’s supposedly secret minimum.…”

“As Nat candidly told his brothers beforehand, Dumon had “let the cat out of the bag”: “[He] said he could not commmunicate his minimum as it was necessary for him to be able to state in the Chamber that his sealed letter had remained a secr…”