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François Coindet (1734–1809), Swiss clerk

Son of Pierre Etienne Coindet (d. 1789), an ironmonger, and his wife, Marie née Cherubin (d. 1745); bourgeois of Geneva with his father and brother in 1744; began work as clerk to the banker Isaac Vernet in 1755. He cultivated the acquaintance of high society, to the neglect of his work, which led to his being sacked in 1763. Correspondent of Rousseau.