75 ([return])
[ See De Nervo, "Finances françaises," p. 282; also Levasseur, vol. i, p. 236 et seq.]
76 ([return])
[ See Table from "Gazette de France" and extracts from other sources in Levasseur, vol. i, pp. 223-4.]
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[ Among the many striking accounts of the debasing effects of "inflation" upon France under the Directory perhaps the best is that of Lacretelle, vol. xiii, pp. 32-36. For similar effect, produced by the same cause in our own country in 1819, see statement from Niles' "Register," in Sumner, p. 80. For the jumble of families reduced to beggary with families lifted into sudden wealth and for the mass of folly and misery thus mingled, see Levassour, vol. i, p. 237.]
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[ For Madame Tallien and luxury of the stock-gambler classes, see Challamel, "Les français sous la Révolution," pp. 30, 33; also De Goncourt, "Les français sous le Directoire." Regarding the outburst of vice in Paris and the demoralization of the police, see Levasseur, as above.]
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[ See Levasseur, Vol. i, p. 237, et seq.]