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The reputation which Mr. Andrew had acquired for pacifying quarrels—by giving good suppers—drew upon him last week a singular visit. A dark-complexioned man, shabbily enough dressed, rather crook-backed, with his head leaning toward one shoulder, a haggard eye and dirty hands, asked to be invited to a supper with his enemies.
He had six footmen, to each of whom he gave for his wages more than the double of my revenue. His head-steward, who, by the way, looked in as good plight as himself, had of him a salary of two thousand livres, and robbed him every year of twenty thousand more. His mistress had in six months stood him in forty thousand crowns.
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."
22 de abr. de 2018 · The man of Forty Crowns. Translated From the French of M. de Voltaire Hardcover – April 22, 2018 . by Voltaire (Author) See all ...
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29 de oct. de 2023 · "The Man of Forty Crowns" is a satirical short story by Voltaire, highlighting the irrationality of religious dogma and superstition. The protagonist receives an inheritance of forty crowns under the condition that he marries a woman he has never ...
