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“In temper he was Earnest, yet controlled, frank, yet sufficiently guarded, patient, yet energetic, forgiving, yet just to himself; generous yet firm,” wrote J. T. Duryea of the U.S. Christian Commission, which met frequently with President Abraha Lincoln. “His conscience was the strongest element of his nature. His affections were tender & warm. His whole nature was simple and sincere – he was pure, and then was himself.”¹

The Marquis de Chambrun, a French writer who came to know Mr. Lincoln in the last months of his life, observed: “Such a nature was admirably constituted to direct an heroic struggle on the part of a people proud enough to prefer a guide to a leader, a man commissioned to execute the popular will but, as in his case, strong enough to enforce his own.”²

Much of Mr. Lincoln’s character was framed in early manhood when he moved to New Salem, Illinois to work for shopkeeper Dennis Offut. Lincoln chronicler Edward J. Kempf wrote: “A long, lean, lanky, easy-going, smiling, awkward young stranger, wearing tight, home made pants shrunken far above his shoe tops, with a summer day into the straggling village of some 20 log cabins and 100 souls, on the bank of the

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Abraham Peyrenc de Moras

French banker

Abraham Peyrenc de Moras
Portrait of Abraham Peyrenc, marquis de Moras
Born	Abraham Peyrenc 1684 (1684) Le Vigan, Gard, France
Died	November 20, 1732(1732-11-20) (aged 47–48) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Banker
Years active	1720-1732
Known for	Constructing Hôtel Biron, which now houses the Musée Rodin

Abraham Peyrenc de Moras (1684 – 20 November 1732) was a French banker. Though descended from commoners and often described as the son of a barber, his family began its ascent in the 17th century. His grandfather was a hat merchant and his father a licensed surgeon, tax collector and a bourgeois of the city. Abraham surpassed them and experienced a meteoric social ascent in 18th century Paris, cemented by him being made noble in 1720.

Early life

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Abraham, the fourth of the Peyrenc children, was born in 1684 and baptized as a Protestant in the church at Aulas, a few miles northwest of Le Vigan.^{[citation needed]} His father was a licensed surgeon. A country surgeon, whose profession dealt with the body, could at times serve as barber.^[1] He was able to purchase the post of secretary to the king and la