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THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS.—My father then told me the truth, when he said that the subject was in proportion more rich under the administration of the Duke of Sully than under that of our new ministers, who had laid on the single tax, the sole tax, and who, out of my forty crowns, have taken away twenty.
We supped at Mr. Andrew's yesterday, together with a Doctor Sorbonne, with Monsieur Pinto, the celebrated Jew, with the chaplain of the Protestant chapel of the Dutch ambassador, the secretary of the Prince Gallitsin of the Greek Church, a Calvinist Swiss captain, two philosophers, and three ladies of great wit.
"The Man of Forty Crowns" is a satirical work by Voltaire in which the protagonist, bestowed with an annual income of forty crowns, navigates the absurdities...
The man of forty crowns. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. : Voltaire: Amazon.com.mx: Libros
Voltaire – Man with forty crowns: This is the story of a guy … a reasonably naive farmer with a small piece of land. Forty crowns, that’s what his good could bring him. Why forty crowns? This is the sum obtained by dividing the number of arpents of the kingdom by the number of its subjects, and the rent associated with the corresponding ...
The man of forty crowns. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. : Voltaire: Amazon.com.mx: Libros
Homme aux quarante écus by Voltaire, 1768, R. Urie edition, in English
