Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Counterfeiter

One who makes fraudulent imitations of coins, seals, documents, etc. A forger. A coiner.

"Something unexpected! France sells!... this excluded, condemned, blacklisted France. They come despite themselves, despite themselves, they buy. They buy models, which they are going, whether well or badly, to copy back home. Such English declare in an inquest that they have an office in Paris, to obtain some models. A few pieces bought in Paris, in Lyon, in Alsace, then copied over there, are enough for the English or German counterfeiter to inundate the world. It's the same with bookstores: the French write, the Belgians sell."

Jules Michelet, The People (1846).

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