monetary system

[jakobmuller]

Does anyone have a god grip on the monetary system used? just when i thought i had it down, they talk about some new denomination of currency which then proceeds to throw me totally off lol

btw i am currently reading it for the first time, and just past the part when milady freaked out on d'artagnan and then he got the letters from the cardinal and his other lady friend.

thanks in advance for any help :)

[kiki1982]

Louis (Gold)= 20 livres (24 livres after 1726)/480 sous/7200 deniers
Livre (Silver)= 20 sous/300 denier
Sous (Copper)= 15 denier
Denier (Copper)
Ecu (silver)= 3 livres/60 sous/900 denier


Franc = 1 livre, an administrative unit only

If you have any more problems relating to this kind of thing, take a look on this website, you can even index and see how uch it would be now, old prices and the like:

http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html

[jakobmuller]

I wonder where pistoles fit in, those seem like the most used denomination. Sometimes it seems like it is a weighty amount, but other times it doesn't seem like much.

Thanks

[kiki1982]

1 pistole= 10 livres/Francs, 1/2 Louis (d'Or/Golden)

It was a pretty hefty sum, yes, considering that in 1653 a surgeon earned 100 to 150 livres per annum and a tailor only 60 per annum.

This website disagrees however on the amount of deniers per sou/sol. They say it is 12, the others 15. I suppose it doesn't really matter as one didn't buy anything with a denier. The rest was the same.

The musketeers are indeed handling hefty sums of money with their thousands.

(Société de Généaolgie des Cnatons de l'Est, website http://www.genealogie.org/club/sgce/monai17.htm)