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I paid forty francs a month to this poor creature​.​.​.

from HdB - album (2020) by HöFLICH

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From the writings of Honoré de Balzac

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“I paid forty francs a month to this poor creature who used to come every morning to make my bed, clean my shoes, brush my clothes, sweep the room and prepare my lunch. For the rest of the day she turned the handle of a machine, and at this nasty job she earned ten sous a day. Her husband, a cabinet-maker, earned four francs. But as the couple had three children, they could barely earn enough to live on. I have never met a more unshakeable honesty than this man’s and this woman’s. For five years after I had left the district, mère Vaillant would come to congratulate me on my saint’s day, bringing me flowers and oranges, even though she never had ten sous saved up. Poverty had brought us together. I could never give her more than ten francs, often borrowed for the occasion.”

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from HdB - album (2020), released January 8, 2020
Narration & concept by Peter Hoflich
Soundscapes & mixes produced by Cronkite Satellite

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HöFLICH Singapore

Peter Hoflich is a musician living in Singapore. He has sung in the rock bands MegalomaniA, the Hideous Motör-Apes, Reckless Hearts, Von Doom and The Sinisters, as well as the folk unit the Es with Athena Desai and Jae Lee. He also performs his own acoustic songs from time to time, and is trying a few experimental things in the home studio. ... more

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