Show ITALY HAD FIRST PAWNSHOP J from that country the system grid ally spread over the tits reit rest of chii th civilized world i tho the french mench call them lionts de ale but no satisfactory explanation forab for nomenclature Is forthcoming fort coming tut t of municipal france was as attended with nith diu culty than N as the case in oher CM trice tries it Is from italy that the olea of nj a pawnshops spread over the reit of ain A municipal uni cipal pa raw bisbo ishop P vu val set up in in the tile bear car 17 0 when a priest with very little capati 0 or nd red up as an I 1 uncle the dyste van v aj tried at avignon in but I 1 waa mat not until the year 1 1777 that ran itself was provided with a monta thi national assembly asse mIrly upset th of monopoly aid and the business busl busi neis nebs passed int private hands tho the extortions of thi pawnbrokers paun brokers in time ld lod hoft ever t a demand for the re e d t the go ern mental institutions in NO established reestablished re the monopoly roon opol regulating rega latin it by laws that are still ii force the interest charged amount to about 7 per cent in paris 1 the mont deplete de dc Is 1 in effect a department the but in the tile it Is 18 a municipal monopoly |