biography
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Silhouette, Etienne de
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1709–67)
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| biography:
| French statesman. A parsimonious minister of finance in 1759, his hobby was the cutting out of paper profile portraits, which came to be called silhouettes. The phrase à la Silhouette also came to be known as ‘on the cheap’. |
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