What made the de Medici family wealthy?

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A member of a wealthy family vanished while travelling in 1854. Years later, a man claiming to be him turned up. After a lengthy trial, he was exposed as an impostor and sentenced to 14 years in prison. What was name of the family? Which Medici was known as "the Unfortunate" and why? He was born in 1731 in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time. His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent. He was a pioneer in the manipulation of gases and established an accurate composition of the atmosphere. He was extremely wealthy, but was not bothered by money. Who was he? Born into a very wealthy Swedish family, this man was chosen to aid the rescue of Budapest's Jews during 1944/1945. Through his actions it is estimated that tens of thousands of lives were saved from the camps. He was eventually seized by the Russians and it now seems likely that he was killed by them shortly after the war. Who was this man?

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