Sismondi

American

[sis-mon-dee, sees-mawn-dee] / sɪsˈmɒn di, sis mɔ̃ˈdi /

noun

Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist.

Sismondi British

/ sɪsˈmɒndɪ, sismɔ̃di /

noun

Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de (ʒɑ̃ ʃarl leɔnar simɔ̃d də). 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist. His Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen âge (1807–18) contributed to the movement for Italian unification

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She and Sismondi hadn’t had to get to know each other.

From Literature

Aunt Jessies beloved husband, Sismondi, had died earlier that summer, and just before they moved to Down, Emma got an upsetting letter from her.

From Literature

After a pause, she cried, “Sismondi, I’m coming,” and looked up as if she saw him standing before her.

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The sisters enjoyed traveling, and when they were nineteen and twenty-one, they went to Geneva, Switzerland, and spent eight months with their favorite aunt, Jessie, and her eccentric Italian husband, J. C. de Sismondi.

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Aunt Jessie and Sismondi were deeply in love and had no children, so they showered their love and attention on the Dovelies.

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