Note 113 — Chapter XIX · “L’ÉTAT, C’EST MOI”
Reading edition
[Voltaire is wrong here, says Martin:d “Fouquet had spent about nine millions” (almost eighteen nowadays and perhaps forty-five in relative value).]
Reading edition
[Voltaire is wrong here, says Martin:d “Fouquet had spent about nine millions” (almost eighteen nowadays and perhaps forty-five in relative value).]