Show ITALY HAD FIRST PAWNSHOP from that country the gradually spread over tho the rest of the civilized world tito tho french call them monts de but no satisfactory explanation nomenclature Is forthcoming the es of municipal tn in franco france was attended with noro more biffl culty than was tho the caso case in countries it 1 la from italy that the flea of mu pawnshops spread ov over er the rest real of kurono A municipal pawa pawnshop shop was wal set up in madrid in tho the 3 ear car 1703 when a priest with very little capital opened up ns as an uncle tho syster system q was tri tred q at tt avignon alg 1 no I 1 in n 1577 b but t it was not until the 0 year bear 1777 1177 carlt itself ay als was provided with ft a ili mont apt aa do I 1 te TI tho tio national dional its assembly ups et ft th end and tile busine passed into p private private hands bonds tho the extortions extort ions of the pawn pawnbroker brokers a tn in anle uma lad however to a demand for the re ot of the governmental institutions ill id 1800 napoleon established reestablished re rc the monopoly regulating it by laws that are still in ID force the interest charged amounts to about 7 per cent in paris the mont de pleto Is in n effect a department of the administration but in the provinces it Is a municipal monopoly |