Note 30 — Chapter III · CONSERVATISM
Reading edition
An English critic once said that the decimal monetary system had not yet been accepted by the French people because they counted in sous. They do not invariably count in sous, but they often do, and that without being unfaithful to the decimal principle, as may be seen by the following table:—
The five-franc piece = 100 sous.
The half-franc piece = 10 sous.
The one-sou piece = 1 sou.