Additionally increased were the deductions for the masse de linge et chaussure, the fund that is regimental pay money for a soldier’s uniform as well as for their footwear. NCOs contributed 16 deniers a day for this masse, corporals and men that are enlisted as much.
That implied extra stoppages of 2 livres for a sergeant and 1 livre for every hussar, fusilier, grenadier, or chasseur, making a fusilier or chasseur with 7 livres 18 sols 6 deniers per thirty days, a grenadier or hussar with 10 livres 3 sols 6 deniers every month, or 122 livres, 2 sols each year. Since wages was indeed doubled when it comes to United states Campaign, a soldier stationed in France received around 60 livres in money wages each year, one fourth the wages of the domestic servant and half the yearly financial worth of a slave’s work to their owner that was set because of the Parlement of Paris through the entire 1760s and 1770s at 120 livres, once again not counting costs for meals and clothes. Read more →