[418] Reference, Rose, Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, pp. 132–133.
[419] The roads were dilapidated and the harbors filled with sand; taxes were unpaid, robbery prevailed, and there was a general decay in industry. A manufacturer in Paris who had employed sixty to eighty workmen now had but ten. The lace, paper, and linen industries were as good as destroyed.
[420] See above, pp. [572–573], [579–580].
[421] Reference, Rose, Life of Napoleon, Vol. I, Chapter XII.
[422] Reference, Rose, Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, pp. 148–163.
[423] See Translations and Reprints, Vol. II, No. 2.
[426] That is, a blockade too extensive to be really carried out by the ships at the disposal of the power proclaiming it.