Aus:
The Economist, 6. Juni 1868. S. 651–653.
Schließen

French Finance. Paris. 4 June. (68)

André Cochut, Revue des Deux Mondes, shows that by loans and by various  The Economist: expedients
Schließen experiments – such as transactions with Railway Companies – the appropriation of the army dotation – a compromise with Spain for the sum it owed – the sale of forests – the augmentation of the caution money of certain public officials, – the grant to the Bank of France (10 years before its privilege expired) of a prolongation thereof on condition of its providing 100 Mill. fcs and receiving Gvt. Stock for the same (the operation was called „doubling the capital“) etc. etc., the Empire has contrived to raise 4,322,478,508f. over and above what was obtained by means of taxation, and that by doing so it has cast an annual charge on the country of 549,149,862f., being 257,522,700 fcs more than had to be borne before the Empire was established.