1856-7

Updated: July 27, 2026

But the cost of living in Paris was apparently as high sixty years ago as now. In 1856-7 he wrote to a friend: "How upon such an income I contrived to live and frequent Parisian salons without ever asking a farthing of any one, only those who have been poor can tell."

Matilda Betham-Edwards - In the Heart of the Vosges : And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"