Georges-Marie Mathieu-Dairnvaell (1822-1893)
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One 1846 pamphlet invented a fake story that became the world's most famous banking conspiracy theory.
Who they are
Georges-Marie Mathieu-Dairnvaell (1822-1893), a French left-wing pamphleteer.
What they do
He wrote a fictional attack piece and passed off a made-up story as history.
How it works
In 1846 he published an antisemitic pamphlet under the pen name 'Satan' that invented, from nothing, the tale of the Rothschilds manipulating the stock market on news of Waterloo; the piece was even praised by Friedrich Engels in a newspaper that year.
Why it matters
It is the single documented starting point of a lie that has been repeated for 180 years and treated as fact ever since.
The engine's record — word for word
Report #78. French left-wing polemicist. Published 1846 antisemitic pamphlet *Histoire Edifiante et Curieuse de Rothschild 1er, Roi des Juifs (par Satan)* under pseudonym 'Satan.' Invented the entire Rothschild-Waterloo stock-manipulation story out of whole cloth. Pamphlet endorsed by Friedrich Engels in *The Northern Star* 1846. 180-year metamorphosis of political fiction into foundational conspiracy-canon. Documented single-point-origin of the Rothschild-Waterloo hoax.
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