Show IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES when an n t with Thirty six servants Ser cot cost 87 a yea tear the following extracts from an ancient account book give an idea of the style of living li in paris at the end of the century the household of a grand seigneur says the boston globe consisted of an in an almoner a secretary an ecuyer two valets a janitor a ste steward ivard an officer of t the he butlers pantry a cooks cook a butlers two kitchen attendants a maid two pages six or four lackeys two coachmen two postil ions two carriage attendants tend ants four stable boys a swiss or porter an intend enVa valet in an al valet a secre valet an valet and a stewards valet the almoners al salary was the the stewards the cooks 60 and so on the entire expenditure pend iture in wages of 36 persons for one year amounting to 2 the entire expenditure in food drink fuel and light of 36 persons for one year amounted to the grand seigneurs seigne urs table served for 13 12 persons twice a day and kitchen laundry fuel and light cost in all per year the grand seigneur had 14 horses for his carriages and 16 saddle horses and their entire cost in food and treatment was per year C 2117 thus the maintenance of a well reg household comprising 86 38 servants and 30 horses cost in paris in 1700 at the most liberal estimate about if the grand seigneur seigne nr were married the lady had at her service an ecuyer ec tayer a maid whose function was to do honor to her and be her constant companion a chambermaid who combed and dressed her hair washed and ironed her fine linen and repaired her laces a valet who was a man milliner a page a steward a coola butler a kitchen maid four lackeys a coachman a a coachmans coach mans boy seven carriage horses and four saddle horses if 11 there were e children there were a governess g ov erness a 26 nurse a preceptor a valet two lackeys a servant for the nurse and the additional expenditure in wa wages gea amounted to only A gentleman who lived in an inn and was content with one valet two lackeys e y and a hired coach it if he lived luxuriously urious ly spent a year |