The Ranums' Panat Times

Part 6:
Unpaid tuition bills

A certain number of the items listed among the titres involve bills not paid by the pupils’ parents. Since the items give a rough idea of the social status of the boarders, I will blackmail some of these families by listing their names and the amount due for their son’s pension: Lescure de St Denis, 405 livres; M. de Hugeac, 297 livres; Vicomte de Losse, 116 livres; Mr. Bosc [or Le Bose?], 656 livres; Digoin, a fermier à Cornillon, 921 livres; René de la Grange, 438 livres 9 sous (for pension and medical care); Joseph Raymond, écuyer, sieur du Breuil, de Dignac, living in the Angoumois, 400 livres; sieur Imbert, receveur of Cardinal d’Estrées, 522 livres; Chevalier de Pujolles, 216 livres; Abbé de Grave Nerestaing, son of the marquis de Neresetaing, 307 livres; Comte de Villiers [I didn’t note the amount]; Le Comte de Saulx and Dame Marie de Grimouville, his wife, 1690 livres; Marquis de la Vieuville, 1599 livres; Marquis du Terrail, 616 livres; Chevalier Bontemps, 1780 livres; Marquis de Hautefeuille [sum not noted]; Mr. and Mme de Luce Rochefort [sum not noted]; Louis de Bethune, marquis de Chabry and governor of Ardres, 791 livres; M. Valance, prévôt des marchands of Roanne, 400 livres; Gabriel Thibault de Senneterre, marquis de la Ferté and his widow, 811 livres; Joseph de Raimond, sieur du Breuil, 400 livres; Sieur de Villancourt, uncollectable because all his goods have been sold; De la Vieuville, comte de Vienne, only the interest remains unpaid; Herbé and his wife, 1775 livres; Desloges, 1800 livres; and on, and on, and on.