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There are many inhabitants who have but the value of ten crowns a year, others no more than four or five, and above six millions of men who have absolutely nothing. The Man of Forty Crowns (French: L'Homme aux quarante écus) is a fable written by Voltaire, From Voltaire's Romances, translated from French in 1889.
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The Man of Forty Crowns having improved his understanding, and having accumulated a moderate fortune, married a very pretty girl, who had a hundred crowns a year of her own. As soon as his son was born, he felt himself a man of some consequence in the state.
Chapter III. The Man of Forty Crowns. Voltaire, translated by William F. Fleming, edited by Tobias George Smollett. Chapter V. →. Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, pages 268–270. CHAPTER IV. AN ADVENTURE WITH A CARMELITE. When I had thanked the academician of the Academy of Sciences for having set me right, I went away quite out of heart ...
An old man, who is forever pitying the present times, and extolling the past, was saying to me: "Friend, France is not so rich as it was under Henry IV." "And why?" "Because the lands are not so well cultivated; because hands are wanting for the cultivation; and because the day-laborer having raised the price of his work, many land-owners let their inheritances lie fallow."
