CHAPTER XLV

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PARISIAN MENDICANCY--THE PARIS POOR.

Parisian Mendicancy in the Sixteenth Century--The General Hospital--Louis XV. and the Beggars--The Revolution--Mendicancy as a Regular Profession--The Organ-grinders and the Trade in Italian Children--The French Treatment of the Poor--Asylums, Almshouses, and Retreats--The _Droit des Pauvres_--The Cost of the Poor.....324

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