e exaggerated like those of the State
and for the same reasons.]

[Footnote 4210: Schmidt, "Pariser Zustaende," I. 93, 96. "During the
first half of the year 1789 there were seventeen thousand men at twenty
sous a day in the national workshops at Montmartre. In 1790, there were
nineteen thousand. In 1791, thirty-one thousand costing sixty thousand
francs a day. In 1790, the State expends seventy-five millions for
maintaining the price of bread in Paris at eleven sous for four
pounds.--Ibid., 113. During the first six months of 1793 the State pays
the Paris bakers about seventy-five thousand francs a day to keep bread
at three sous the pound.]

[Footnote 4211: Ibid. I., 139-144.]

[Footnote 4212: Decree of September 27, 1790. "The circulation of
assignats shall not extend beyond one billion two hundred millions....
Those which are paid in shall be destroyed and there shall be no other
creation or emission of them, without a decree of the Corps Legislatif,
always subject to this condition that they shall not exceed the value
of the national possessions nor obtain a circulation above one billion two
hundred millions.]

[Footnote 4213: Schmidt, ibid., I., 104, 138, 144.]

[Footnote 4214: Felix Rocquam, "L'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire,"
p.240. (Report by Lacuee, year IX.--Reports by prefets under the
Consulate (Reports of Laumont, prefet of the Lower-Rhine, year X.;
of Coichen, prefet of the Moselle, year XI., etc.)--Schmidt, Pariser
Zustaende," III., 205. ("The rate of interest during the Revolution was
from four to five per cent. per month; in 1796 from six to eight per
cent. per month, the lowest rate being two per cent. per month with
security.")]

[Footnote 4215: Arthur Young, "Voyage en France," II., 360. (Fr.
translation.) "I regard Bordeaux as richer and more commercial than any
city in England except London."]

[Footnote 4216: Ibid., II., 357. The statistics of exports in France
in 1787 give three hundred and forty-nine millions, and imports three
hundred and forty millions (leaving out Lorraine. Alsace, the three
Eveches and the West Indies).-Ibid., 360. In 1786 the importations from
the West Indies amounted to one hundred and seventy-four millions, of
which St. Domingo furnished one hundred and thirty-one millions; the
exports to the West Indies amounted to sixty-four millions, of which St.
Domingo had forty-four millions. These exchanges were effected by
five hundred and sixty-nine vessels carrying o