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...essential for each small householder to keep a hoard of money to meet expenses, whereas, today, wealth may be obtained solely on credit. It is an interesting fact that we have but three times as much money in circulation, nowadays, as at the time of Louis XVI, while we are seven or eight times as rich...
Agricultural labor was paid very little in the early Middle Ages, but as its necessity increased, and as the tools were poor, it became dearer. In the time of Louis XVI, however, the land was at its highest period of cultivation, while the condition of the laborer had fallen to a very low state. The history of property shows the economical forces which make human combinations necessary; through its development labor organizations have been materially affected...
...Purchas's Voyages", volumes XI -- XVI...
...administration was wrested from the dissipated debauchee, Louis XV, passing first into the hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity...
...been in history, and is still, the first among Catholic nations, but she was the first country to proclaim religious liberty, in the sixteenth century. Louis XIV, by revoking the Edict of Nantes, could not suppress the Protestants, and they recovered their liberty before the Revolution, under Louis XVI...