- In the second place, the new managers had
quadrupled the public expenditure.[9] What with the equipment and
excursions of the National Guards federations, patriotic festivals
and parades, the writing, printing and publication of innumerable
documents, reimbursements for suppressed offices, the installation
of new administrations, aid to the indigent and to its charity
workshops, purchases of grain, indemnities to millers and bakers,
it was under the necessity of providing for the cost of the
universal demolition and reconstruction. Now, the State had, for the
most part, defrayed all these expenses. At the end of April, 1793, it
had already advanced to the city of Paris alone, one hundred and ten
million francs, while the Commune, insolvent, kept constantly
extorting fresh millions.[10] By the side of this gulf, the Jacobins
had dug another, larger still, that of the war. For the first half of
the year 1793 they threw into this pit first, one hundred and forty
millions, then one hundred and sixty millions, and then one hundred
and ninety million francs; in the second six months of 1793 the war
and provisions swallowed up three hundred million francs per month,
and the more they threw into the two gulfs the deeper they became.
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