Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy (1546–1629) was a French soldier and diplomat. Although de Harlay belonged to the Protestant branch of the family of Harlay, he adopted the Catholic religion in 1572 during the massacres of the Huguenots. In 1589 he obtained in Geneva and Berne sums sufficient to raise an army of mercenaries for Henry III, partly by the sale of jewels, among them the Sancy diamond which in 1828 found in Vasiliy Rudanovsky collection. Henry IV made him superintendent of his finances in 1594, but in 1599 he was replaced by
Auction chant Van Dyke who was an auctioneer, and the 1995 hit single "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" by John Michael Montgomery. Commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes featured tobacco auctioneers, and their phrase ""Sold" American!" made its way into the 1940 film "His Girl Friday". The auction chant was explored in the 1976 documentary "How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck", by Werner Herzog. Auction chant Auction chant (also known as "bid calling", "the auction cry", "the cattle rattle", or simply "auctioneering") is a rhythmic repetition of numbers and "filler words" spoken by auctioneers in the process of conducting an auction.