A couple sits in a public weight balance to compare their assets before marriage. Advisors add supplements to the scales. Mariage a la Mode. Argent Fait Tout. From a satirical print by Nicolas Guerard, rue St Jacques a la Reine du Clerge, circa 1715. Lithograph from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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