Quotes About Livres

in the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to "those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.

It has been argued that in the eighteenth century a person with an annual income of 15,000 livres or more could be described as wealthy, and a person with an income of 30,000 livres or more could be described as extremely wealthy.1 If this benchmark is even roughly valid, it implies that when Voltaire became wealthy, after 1729, he became very, very, very wealthy.