Mont-de-Piété

Mont de Piété English Noun Monts-de-Piété en Mont de Piété. en The Catholic magazine - Volume 3 1844 249 Every individual employed in them acted under the immediate orders of a director appointed by the general committee of the Mont-de-Piété. en The Mysteries of Paris, translated without abridgement Marie Joseph Eugène Sue 1845 "How grateful to you, Jacques, must be the praises of the curate!" said Polidori ; " and how many more he will bestow upon you, when he shall learn your intention to establish a gratuitous Mont-de-Piété !" en Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940 Timothy B. Smith 2003 79 0773524096 To Herriot the Mont-de-Piété was "a museum" that needed replacement by an institution that "conforms to modern progress."