For the Report referred to, see Levasseur, "Histoire des classes ouvriès et de l'industrie en France de 1789 à 1870," Paris, 1903, vol. i., chap. 6. Levasseur (vol. 1, p. 120), a very strong conservative in such estimates, sets the total value of church property at two thousand millions; other authorities put it as high as twice that sum. See especially Taine, liv. ii, ch. I., who gives the valuation as "about four milliards." Sybel, "Gesch. der Revolutionszeit," gives it as two milliards and Briand, "La séparation" &c., agrees with him. See also De Nerve, "Finances Françaises," vol. ii, pp. 236-240; also Alison, "History of Europe," vol. i.]
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[ For striking pictures of this feeling among the younger generation of Frenchmen, see Challamel, "Sur la Révolution," p. 305. For general history of John Law's paper money, see Henri Martin, "Histoire de France"; also Blanqui, "Histoire de l'économie politique," vol. ii, pp. 65-87; also Senior on "Paper Money," sec. iii, Pt. I, also Thiers, "Histoire de Law"; also Levasseur, op. cit. Liv. i., chap. VI. Several specimens of John Law's paper currency are to be found in the White Collection in the Library of Cornell University,—some, numbered with enormous figures.]
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[ See Buchez and Roux, "Histoire Parlementaire," vol. v, p. 321, et seq. For an argument to prove that the assignats were, after all, not so well secured as John Law's money, see Storch, "Economie Politique," vol. iv, p. 160.]
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[ For specimens of this first issue and of nearly every other issue during the French Revolution, see the extensive collection of originals in the Cornell University Library. For a virtually complete collection of photographic copies, see Dewamin, "Cent ans de numismatique française," vol. i, passim.]
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[ See "Addresse de l'Assemblée nationals sur lea emissions d'assignats monnaies," p. 5.]