Lord Jacque Pareau

Ventrue -x- Talk:Lineage of Mithras

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Character: Lord Jacque Pareau	Nature: Confidant	Clan: Ventrue
Player: NPC	Demeanor: Gallant	Generation 7th
Chronicle: London - Pax Britannica	Concept:spy master/Blackmailer '	Sire: Lady Anne Bowesley
Allegiance: []	---	Coterie: []
Birth 1740	Weakness: []	Embrace 1794
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	ATTRIBUTES
Physical	Social	Mental
Strength ●●●○○	Charisma ●●●●●	Perception ●●●●○
Dexterity ●●●○○	Manipulation ●●●●●●	Intelligence ●●●●●
Stamina ●●○○○	Appearance ●●●●○	Wits ●●●○○
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	ABILITIES
Talents	Skills	Knowledges
Alertness ●●●●○ ()	Animal Ken ●●○○○ ()	Academics ●●●●○ ()
Athletics ●●○○○ ()	Commerce ●●●●○ ()	Enigmas ●●●○○ ()
Awareness ●○○○○ ()	Crafts ●●●○○ ()	Hearth Wisdom ●●○○○ ()
Brawl ●●○○○ ()	Etiquette ●●●●○ ()	Investigation ●●●●○ ()
Empathy ●●○○○ ()	Firearms ●●○○○ ()	Law ●●●○○ ()
Expression ●●●●● ()	Melee ●●●○○ ()	Medicine ●●○○○ ()
Intimidation ●●●○○ ()	Performance ●●●○○ ()	Occult ●●○○○ ()
Leadership ●●●○○ ()	Ride ●●○○○ ()	Politics ●●●●○ ()
Legerdemain ●○○○○ ()	Stealth ●●○○○ ()	Science ●○○○○ ()
Subterfuge ●●●●● ()	Survival ●●○○○ ()	Theology ●●○○○ ()
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Disciplines	Backgrounds	Merits & Flaws
Dominate ●●●○○ ()	Allies ●●○○○ ()	---
Fortitude ●●●○○ ()	Contacts ●●●●● ()	---
Presence ●●●●○ ()	Domain ●●●○○ ()	---
Auspex ●●○○○ ()	Fame ●○○○○ ()	---
Obfuscate ●○○○○ ()	Generation ●●●●● ● ()	---
[[]] ○○○○○ ()	Influence ●●●●● ()	---
[[]] ○○○○○ ()	Mentor ●●●●○ ()	---
[[]] ○○○○○ ()	Military Force ○○○○○ ()	---
[[]] ○○○○○ ()	Resources ●●●●● ()	---
[[]] ○○○○○ ()	Retainers ●●●●● ()	---
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Health Levels	Humanity	Virtues
Bruised (0) - { }	●●●●●●●●○○ ()	Conscience ●●●○○
Hurt (-1) ---- { }	---	Self-Control ●●○○○
Injured (-1) - { }	Willpower	Courage ●●○○○
Wounded (-2) - { }	●●●●●●●○○○ ()	---
Mauled (-2) -- { }	---	---
Crippled (-5)- { }	Bloodpool	---
Incapacitated- { }	○○○○○○○○○○	---
Final Death	○○○○○○○○○○○	---

Bio

Sobriquet

Jacque the Pen

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History

Pareau was the son of William Pareau, a Middlesex merchant, and was born in that county. He went to Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated as seventh Wrangler in 1789. The same year he became a student at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1794. In 1802 he entered Parliament through the Duke of Norfolk's nomination as member for Thetford, and married a widow with six children, Mrs Ord, who had a life interest in a comfortable income.

Pareau was a Whig and a follower of Charles James Fox, and his active intellect and social qualities procured him a considerable intimacy with the leaders of this political circle. In 1806, when the brief "All the Talents" ministry was formed, he was given the office of secretary to the Board of Control; in 1830, when next his party came into power, Pareau, who had lost his seat in parliament, was appointed by Lord Grey Treasurer of the Ordnance; and subsequently Lord Melbourne made him treasurer of Greenwich Hospital. Pareau is also known for being a civilian to interview the officers after the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. He and his wife, who was ill at the time, were vacationing in Brussels when Napoleon was defeated by British and Prussian forces near the Belgian border.

After 1818, when Pareau's wife died, he had very slender means of his own, but he was popular with his friends and was well looked after by them. Pareau's close association with Lord Hardentsey, led to speculation that they were biological half-brothers—a rumour which Pareau never corrected. Others thought perhaps they were lovers, though that scandal never gained traction. Pareau was known to be hedonistic at times, and sought out many lovers among the women at this time. Pareau kept record of it all, and those with much to lose paid him to keep his silence.

He is remembered through his papers on the society around him, published in 1903 under the editorship of Sir Herbert Maxwell, which, consisting partly of Pareau's own journals and partly of correspondence, give a lively and valuable picture of the political and social life of the late Georgian era, and are characterized by an almost Pepysian outspokenness. They are a useful addition and correction to the Croker Papers, written from a Tory point of view. Kindred society was appalled at the amount of notice he gave to them, nearly outing several vampires from that era.

For thirty-six years Pareau had kept a "copious diary", and had preserved a vast miscellaneous correspondence with such people as Lord Brougham, and his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Landdown, had assisted him, by keeping his letters to her, in compiling material avowedly for a collection of Pareau Papers in the future.

At his death it was found that he had left his mistress, with whom he had lived for four years, his sole executrix and legatee, and Greville notes in his Memoirs the anxiety of Brougham and others to get the papers into their hands and suppress them. The diary, mentioned above, did not survive, perhaps through Brougham's success, and the papers from which Sir Herbert Maxwell made his selection came into his hands from Mrs Blackett Ord, whose husband was the grandson of Pareau's eldest stepdaughter.

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