[269] In the French Chamber of Deputies it was officially stated in 1893, that in two decades France had spent the sum of £614,000,000 on her army and the new fortresses, apart from that on strategic railways and the fleet.
[270] Notovich, L'Empereur Alexandre III. ch. viii.
[271] L.E. Flourens, Alexandre III.: sa Vie, son Oeuvre, p. 319.
[272] The French Invasion of Russia, by Sir R. Wilson, p. 234.
[273] H. Norman, M.P., All the Russias, p. 390 (Heinemann, 1902). See the articles on the alliance as it affects Anglo-French relations by M. de Pressensé in the Nineteenth Century for February and November 1896; also Mr. Spenser Wilkinson's The Nation's Awakening, ch. v.
[274] L'Alliance Franco-russe devant la Crise Orientale, par un Diplomate étranger. (Paris, Plon. 1897).
[275] See an article by Jules Simon in the Contemporary Review, May 1894.