_Boisguillebert_, Traité des Grains, I, 2, estimates the wages in France, for agricultural laborers, at least from 7 to 8 sous, of present money, and at twice that amount in harvest time. In 1697, laborers in Paris received from 40 to 50 sous. (Détail de la France, I, ch. 1, ch. 7.) _Vauban_ estimates wages in large cities at 22½-45 sous; for country manual laborers, at 18 sous; for agricultural laborers, 12-13-1/5 sous. (Project d'une Dime royale, 89 Daire.) On the other hand, _Chaptal_, De l'Industrie, Fr. I, 245, 1819, speaks of an average wage--25 sous. _Dureau de la Malle_, Economie polit. des Romains, I, 151, allows agricultural laborers, in 80 departments of France, only 20-25 sous. According to _Moreau de Joannés_, Journal des Econ., Oct. 1850, the average wages of a French agricultural family amounted per annum, in 1700, to 135 francs; in 1760, to 126; in 1788, to 161; in 1813, to 400; in 1840, to 500 francs. While _A. Young_, Travels in France, 1787-89, speaks of wages of 20 sous a day; _Peuchet_, Statist. élémentaire, 1805, 361, assumes it to be 30 sous, although the price of corn was not much higher. Compare _Birkbeck_, Agricultural Tour of France, 13, who is of opinion even, that French laborers are better situated than the English (?). From 1830 to 1848, wages decreased about 30 per cent. (_L. Faucher_, Revue des deux Mondes, Avril, 1848.) _Levasseur_, Histoire des Classes ouvrières en France, II, 1858.