Mont-de-Piété

See also: Mont de Piété

English

Noun

Mont-de-Piété (plural Monts-de-Piété)

1. Alternative form of Mont de Piété
   • 1844, The Catholic magazine - Volume 3, page 249:

     Every individual employed in them acted under the immediate orders of a director appointed by the general committee of the Mont-de-Piété.

   • 1845, Marie Joseph Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris, translated without abridgement:

     "How grateful to you, Jacques, must be the praises of the curate!" said Polidori ; " and how many more he will bestow upon you, when he shall learn your intention to establish a gratuitous Mont-de-Piété !"

   • 2003, Timothy B. Smith, Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940, →ISBN, page 79:

     To Herriot the Mont-de-Piété was "a museum" that needed replacement by an institution that "conforms to modern progress."