FORTUNE CLAIMED.
INNKEEPER'S £300,000,000. TAKEN BY NAPOLE. N. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, January 7. Claimants to the fabulous fortune left by Jean Thierry, an innkeeper at Brescia, Italy, Who died in 1636, leaving estate estimated to-day to be worth £300,000,000, have been informed by the French Government that a settlement for £160,000 will be made if they produce a family tree proving their right to the money. ! Mme. Jolycier, of Auteuil, near Paris, who claims she is the genuine heiress and has genealogical tables to prove it, told how France obtained possession of the fortune.
"Jean Thierry," she said," was the son of a poor nobleman who took up innkeeping in 1600. He met a rich Venetian merchant who made him heir to the fortune.
"The treasure included estates, houses near the Doge's palace in Venice, a four-foot-square box filled with gold ingots, 50,000 gold coins, 20,000 silver ducats, 800,000 Venetian ecus (silver coins), and two bags of precious stones." It is acknowledged in France that when Napole n entered Venice in 1796 he took this fortune from the vaults of the Zecca Bank.
Five judgments have been given by the Seine Tribunal since 1822 in favour of the legal heirs. _ ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 11
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