At the end of the two months he sent his resignation in to the Chamber and opened a sugar-refinery at Briche.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
M. Mauperin had done very well with his refinery.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
"Really, Madame, I hardly follow you," I said, standing before the dark-haired, handsome French girl-for she was little more than a girl-who had inherited the whole fortune of the biggest sugar refinery in Europe, the great factory out at St. Denis which supplied nearly one-sixth of the refined sugar of the world.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux