During two years the dividend had reached the prodigious figure of fifty thousand francs; the value of the denier, quoted at the Lille bourse at a million, had centupled in a century.
Il y avait deux ans enfin, le dividende était monté au chiffre prodigieux de cinquante mille francs: la valeur du denier, coté a la Bourse de Lille un million, avait centuplé en un siecle.