" (Cambon, in his estimates,
purposely exaggerates ordinary expenses of the monarchy. According to
Necker's budget, the expenditure in 1759 was fixed at five hundred and
thirty-one millions and not, as Cambon states, seven hundred millions.
This raises the expenses of the Revolution and of the war to seven
thousand one hundred and twenty-one millions for the four and a half
years, and hence to one thousand five hundred and eighty-one millions
per annum, that is to say, to triple the ordinary expenses.) The
expenses of the cities are therefore exaggerated like those of the
State and for the same reasons.
[10] Schmidt, "Pariser Zust?nde," I. 93, 96. "During the first half
of the year 1789 there were seventeen thousand men at twenty sous a
day in the national workshops at Montmartre. In 1790, there were
nineteen thousand. In 1791, thirty-one thousand costing sixty
thousand francs a day. In 1790, the State expends seventy-five
millions for maintaining the price of bread in Paris at eleven sous
for four pounds. - Ibid., 113. During the first six months of 1793
the State pays the Paris bakers about seventy-five thousand francs a
day to keep bread at three sous the pound.
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