Note 451 — Chapter XII · GUNPOWDER
Reading edition
Hallam’s “Middle Ages,” i. 211. On the accession of Louis XI. (1461) “the livre was only about 1/15 of its original value ... and in 1789 the livre had come to be only 1/78 of its weight in the time of Charlemagne. “Money,” by Prof. Bastable, in Ency. Brit., 9th ed., xvi. 727.