The family lost its position and most of its wealth during the French persecution of the Protestants (after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685).

In 1682, each Rennepont got a bronze medal telling them to meet back in Paris 150 years later, at which time the fortune will be divided among the surviving members.

The members of the family are not only dispersed all over the world, but also all over the social ladder, as laborers, factory owners and the independently wealthy.

Jesuit Père d'Aigrigny is in charge of obtaining the money for the Society of Jesus and dispossessing the Renneponts.

The Jesuits have spies all over the world and use them to put obstacles in the paths of the Renneponts as they make their way back to Paris.

She goes to a drawer and pulls out a codicil that explains that the parties have three and a half months from 13 February to present themselves.

Gabriel and Hardy die as a matter of course, which means that the Wandering Jew and Hérodiade can finally rest in peace.

[2] Its publication, and that of its predecessor The Mysteries of Paris, greatly increased the circulation of the magazines in which they were published; in addition they are held to have influenced legislation on the Jesuits, and caused a general "jesuitophobie".