Mathieu Georges Dairnvaell
French satirist and pamphleteer (fl. 1838–1851) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mathieu Georges Dairnvaell (born: Mathieu Georges February 2, 1818, in Marseille;[1] date of death unknown) was a French journalist and pamphleteer using the pen name Satan, publishing during the years 1838 to 1851. In 1846 he published a 36-page pamphlet launching the antisemitic canard that the fabulous wealth of the Rothschild banking dynasty was amassed by Nathan Rothschild through obtaining advance knowledge of the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and using this information to successfully play the stock market. In this way, Dairnvaell contributed to the rise of what Michel Dreyfus has called "economic antisemitism".[2][3]
In a Chartist newspaper, Friedrich Engels recommends Dairnvaell for having started "a new mode of attack" against financiers, in which "King Rothschild has been obliged to publish two defenses against these attacks of a man whom nobody knows, and the whole of whose property consists in the suit of clothes he wears."[4]