By the way AL left over 207000Francs at this death, and that was a large amount of money (even though he owed over 300000 francs from the Lebeau freres bankruptcy).
So no matter what he did after that bankruptcy, he did make a lot of money. Doing what kind of activity?
At that time a Franc was worth exactly 4.5grams of Silver. So his assets were equivalent to one tonne of Silver, not a small quantity.
Best regards,
WC-