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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6142 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 1 of 2 29 August 2007 at 6:17am | IP Logged |
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According to several sources I've found while traversing the interwebs, Victor Lustig - the man who "sold" the Eiffel Tower twice - was fluent in five languages. I've done a bit of searching, but came seem to find out which languages they were. He was from Bohemia, and worked in Paris and New York, so they could be English (a definite), French, Czech, possibly German. Interesting guy, anyway.
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| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6491 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 2 of 2 29 August 2007 at 12:16pm | IP Logged |
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At the time, German was the official language in Bohemia (and in some parts Czech) and his name is German, so I guess he very likely spoke German.
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