To expedite the procuring of a passport, in a case of emergency, applications may be made to the French Consul, No 3, Copthal Buildings, where a fee of ten shillings is expected.
Members of the same family may have their names inserted in the same passport, but persons travelling in company should provide themselves with separate passports. Couriers and male servants should each have a passport.
A traveller intending to visit any other territory should have the passports visé (backed) by the Ambassador or Consul of each country traversed.
Consuls residing at the outports also give passports, so likewise do British Consuls resident at foreign seaports.
The British Ambassador's residence, in Paris, is No 39, rue du faubourg saint Honoré.
If the traveller should omit to obtain a passport till he reach Dover, or Brighton, or Southampton, he may procure one from the French Consul at any one of these places, on the first application, it will cost him ten shillings.
Cash.—The traveller will find English Bank-Notes, particularly of large amount the most profitable money he can take to France. The course of exchange has for several years been about six per cent in favor of England. Should he however object to carry a large sum with him, he may take Circular or transferable Exchange notes. The object of these notes is to supply travellers on the continent with money where they may require it, without there being any necessity for determining the route before hand; and to supply other individuals, who may have remittances to make abroad, with bills upon any particular place that they may desire. For this purpose a correspondence is established with all the principal places in Europe.
Notes on this plan may be obtained of Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Foreign Banking Company, (la banque Anglo-Etrangère), 82, Lombard Street, and of Messrs. Glynn and Co., Lombard Street.
Coin.—The modern gold coins of France are pieces of 40 fr. and 20 fr. The silver coins are 5 fr., 2 fr., 1 fr., ½ fr., ¼ fr.. The coins of billon (a mixed metal) and copper are pieces of one decime, or 2 sous, pieces of 6 liards, or 1½ sou, of 5 centimes, or one sou, and of one centime. There are also liards and double liards, which are ¼ and ½ of a sou.
In the monetary system of France, the coins, if accurately minted, may serve also as weights. Thus 5 francs in copper, 50 in billon, 200 in standard silver, or 3,100 in standard gold, should weigh one kilogramme. Hence the piece of one fr. weighs 5 grammes, and any other piece in the above proportion.