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Branches were soon opened in London and New York by Louis-François' sons to serve Victorian magnates on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually a Cartier grandson married the granddaughter of Worth, the world famous couturier , as if to consolidate the whole international luxury-goods network.
One that escapes that euphemism is Boldt’s Castle, the kind of Gothic folly that magnates liked to dabble in earlier this century.
Facing little competition, these magnates possess fantastic wealth--mainly from monopolies on natural resources--and own major media outlets.
Timber magnates and mine owners deployed armed Pinkertons and strikebreakers as if they were baronial armies.