Caricature of a French landlord complaining about his tenants, 1797. "The bad ones torment me, the good ones ruin me." Le Rentier: Les mechants me tourmentent, les bons me ruinent. Illustration from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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