tirages

Updated: July 20, 2025

And they have, it is true, some other temptations which come to them with a cheap press, such as 'la sureté financière, 'le moniteur des tirages financiers, 'le petit moniteur financier, &c., newspapers whose special business it is, to teach the people how to get rid of their savings, we are speaking, of course, of the comparatively uneducated agricultural population the farmers, all through the district we have come, especially near Vire and Falaise, being rich propriétaires and investing largely; and there are many other things in these half-penny French newspapers which find their way into these remote corners of France, which must make the curé sometimes regret that he had taught his flock to read.

Henry Blackburn - Normandy Picturesque