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Auguste H. She married L. Achille , the second son, was born in Paris in Two years later their mother died, when Edgar was only thirteen. A succession of crop failures and a period of corruption in the city which led to bankruptcy affected their finances. Edgar and his family were forced to liquidate the De Gas bank in He was now forced to earn money by selling his works.

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In his letters written in , he begins to mention the "troubles of all kind with which I am burdened;" he complains about the necessity to "earn my rotten life. The De Gas patent of nobility is false, because the family was descended from bankers. Edgar Degas was the only child in the family to revert to the original spelling "Degas," avoiding the pretense to nobility, before he reached forty.

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