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[lollardfish]

I need cost-of-living data for mid-19th-century urban France.

Google is failing me.

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[creidylad.livejournal.com]

Hm.... http://www.daumier.org/176.0.html ? It even has a list of prices in francs if you scroll down.

Too bad there's no version of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew for France. (That I know of)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found that one. There's a lack of prices of bread.

[creidylad.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, you should have said you wanted that specifically... though it's not so easy to find. I do find references to rampant inflation (which I suppose I already knew) throughout 19th century French prices, so you might have to get more specific with prices. And you being all multi-lingual, you should probaby do your search in French.

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Closest thing, I'd guess, is A History of Private Life, but I don't think it has this particular piece of info.

[rani23.livejournal.com]

Let's see what we've got:

Cost of bread in 1865 England was 1.80d per pound of bread.
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/nelson1.html

Okay, specifically looked up in Google Books:
Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-century France By Rachel Ginnis Fuchs and it gives an economic chart of the price of bread, the price of grain and the cost of living index. (pg 98) search for "Bread" when you find it in Google Books. (Not sure how helpful this is -- doesn't give an exact price -- looks like econmic data.)

Does that help?

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Maybe! :) You're a star.