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The causes of our poverty; a poverty which we hide under varnished ceilings, or with the help of our dealers in fashion. We are poor with taste. There are some officers of revenue, there are contractors or jobbers, there are merchants, very rich; their children, their sons-in-law, are also very rich…
THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS MARRIES, BECOMES A FATHER, AND DESCANTS UPON THE MONKS. The Man of Forty Crowns having improved his understanding, and having accumulated a moderate fortune, married a very pretty girl, who had an 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.
The man of forty crowns : Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire | WorldCat.org
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"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 met.
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 ...
