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Updated: May 31, 2025
'My friends, he said to us one day, 'I have been obliged to put my clock in the pot. " Schmidt. He dines for one thousand francs and loudly exclaims: 'I have dined at four francs ten sous. They are really superb, these assignats! Ibid., Frimaire 2, "The rentier is ruined, not being able to buy food. Employees are all in the same situation."
The novelist made use of many of the names which occur in papers relating to his family history, in Peter Ibbetson. Du Maurier's father was a small rentier, deriving his income from the family glass-works in Anjou. He was born in England, whither the artist's grandfather had fled to escape the Revolution and the guillotine, returning to France in 1816.
I, simple rentier, with my two little establishments pressing more closely upon my resources with every year's increase of house-rates, how could I look at this glorious small freeholder without comparisons? "So, then, Father Joliet," said I, "you are rich?" "At least I depend no longer on my horse, and that thanks to you and the government." "To me! What do you mean?"
The first person whom she sought out was the rentier the landlord of the cottage. He was a retired tradesman one who had made his modest fortune in a charcuterie and had invested it in house property. Fanny told him that she had been lady's-maid to Lady Harry Norland, in the recent occupancy of the cottage, and that she was anxious to know her present address. "Merci, mon Dieu! que sais-je?
Those present moved noiselessly over the thick Turkey carpet, while the double windows excluded every sound from the busy boulevard below. "Your name," exclaimed the great Bézard sharply, at last raising his eyes from a file of papers before him "your name is Paul Robert Le Pontois, son of Paul Le Pontois, rentier of Severac, Department of Aveyron.
But everywhere in Europe what is happening is a great transformation of the property owner into a rentier, and the passing of realty into the hands of the State. At the end of the war Great Britain will probably find herself with a national debt so great that she will be committed to the payment of an annual interest greater in figures than the entire national expenditure before the war.
The nett tendency is towards the disappearance of a reality holding class and the destruction of realities in warfare, and the appearance of a vast rentier class in its place.
This second way is by increasing the wealth of the state and by increasing the national production to such an extent that the payment of the rentier class will not be an overwhelming burthen. Rising prices bilk the creditor. Increased production will check the rise in prices and get him a real payment.
She obviously belonged to that rentier class who spend the evening of their days in the quiet town which serves as G.H.Q. a town which has a kind of faded gentility, and which, behind its inscrutable house-fronts, conceals a good deal of quiet opulence in the matter of old china, silver, and oak. In her youth Madame had kept a pension and had had English demoiselles among her charges.
It is true that sometimes a fat financier, or rich rentier, who may have called himself a sportsman, has been carried off and ransom demanded for him, but a real sportsman never.
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