Ramasseurs
Glossary term
/ʁa.ma.sœʁ/
Salvagers instructed to recover the marketable remains of an estate when aristocratic responsibility has proved non-performing.
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…Sir Gerald and Lady Valerie, and those two bankers, and also myself, you know, we must instruct the ramasseurs that they salvage what of the effects of the Milord comrade révolutionnaire will serve so as to meet the obligations due to his fellow beneficiaries.”