Napoleon's Wars
Before the Academy of Sciences lr Paris, M. Passy has read a paper en« titled " The Pnco of Glory." At the lowest calculations, he says, the Nnpoleonic wars cost France tie lives pi 1,750,000 men ; while, in addition, they involved the carnage of five millions belonging to other nations. Not only did tbe Imperial butcher take, one by one, ererj male member of the family capable of bearing arms, but he impoverished those who procured substitute.*, the price of which was gradually raised from L 32 to L4B; and if the conscription was evaded, all the fugitive's family were lieafily fined— not once, but repeat . edly. " Such," observed M Passy, "is the cost of war ; such the price paid for Rlory and victory, followed, in the end, by invasion or defeat." Nevertheless, the «cour«re of France is still adored by great numbers of his infatuated countrymen, and by the world at large.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 94, 18 October 1893, Page 3
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