@csschmitt1 I use McCusker, Money and Exchange, to convert to pounds, then Measuring Worth to get present-day values. It's approximate, but that's about the best one can do without making it its own research project: https://t.co/GpfTL8pMsn and https://t.co/SWlAViSeiG
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I have seen a lot of discussion on here about Ukraine and questions of racism, but thus far nothing (?!?) on the incredibly retrograde GENDER politics of the Ukraine discourse: endless statements about how men are defending helpless women and children etc
@DrJulieHardwick right, I imagined that the allumette was a little piece of wood (first meaning in the Collins - petit bûcher) that she put the remains on. [disturbing to visualize, as you said ...]
@DrJulieHardwick So I think she found the fetus, which was shriveled [antecedent of lequel must be the fetus I think], and SHE put it on a piece of tillot wood [could be tilleul?], and then brought to the people writing this
@DrJulieHardwick And then later on, "Elle nous a dit avais Ramassé samedi dernier dans la Rue sur les six a Sept heures du soir & quElle met sur la dt alumette..."