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If you would like to learn why this common myth is false, I would recommend the book "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World", which in one of its chapters explains that this result actually made the Rotschilds go almost bankrupt because they were betting on a prolonged war, and they were just barely able to maintain their wealth despite the defeat of napoleon, not because of it.


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